1 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
11 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
14 * WPL playlist support
15 * ZPL playlist support
18 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
21 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
24 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
25 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
28 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
34 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
35 ---------------------------------
39 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
40 See 'Access:' for more info.
41 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
44 * Instantaneous pausing
45 * Frame-by-Frame playback
47 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
48 * Timeshift for most medias
49 * RTSP trickplay support
50 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
53 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
54 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
55 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
56 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
57 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
58 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
59 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
60 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
61 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
62 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
65 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
66 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
67 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
68 * Metadata for mod files are supported
69 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
70 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
71 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
74 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
75 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
78 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
79 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
80 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
81 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
82 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
83 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
84 * DVB scanning on linux
85 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
86 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
87 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
88 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
89 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
90 * MTP device access on Unix
91 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
92 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
95 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
96 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
100 * Export the playlist in HTML
101 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
102 * Better metadata handling and reading
104 Linux/Windows interface:
105 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
106 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
107 * Recently played items list
108 * Interface toolbar customizations
109 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
112 - Improvements on many dialogs
113 - New dialog for plugins listing
114 - Fixed-size mode for videos
115 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
116 * Better integration in GTK environments
119 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
120 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
121 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
122 * Additional usability improvements
125 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
126 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
127 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
128 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
129 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
132 * New Maemo port with:
133 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
134 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
137 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
140 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
141 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
142 * Support for latest iSight models
145 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
146 * Surround support for PulseAudio
149 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
150 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
151 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
152 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
153 The old image video output has been removed.
154 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
155 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
158 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
161 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
162 ---------------------------------
165 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
166 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
169 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
170 ---------------------------------
173 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
176 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
179 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
180 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
181 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
182 main controller window.
183 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
186 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
191 * Updates of other localizations
194 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
195 * Lots of small bugfixes.
196 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
197 * Telnet fixes on Windows
198 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
200 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
201 ---------------------------------
204 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
206 Bunch of small bugfixes.
209 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
210 --------------------------------
215 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
216 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
219 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
220 --------------------------------
222 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
223 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
226 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
229 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
230 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
233 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
234 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
237 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
238 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
239 * Various fixed in playlist
242 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
245 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
248 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
249 ------------------------------------
251 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
252 * Fixes several memory leaks.
255 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
256 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
257 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
260 * Stability fix for the video output.
263 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
264 --------------------------------
267 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
268 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
269 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
270 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
271 * Fixed update system bugs
272 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
275 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
276 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
277 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
278 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
279 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
280 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
281 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
282 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
283 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
284 modern Mac OS X versions
287 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
288 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
290 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
291 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
294 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
295 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
296 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
297 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
298 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
299 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
302 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
303 --------------------------------
305 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
306 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
310 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
311 --------------------------------
313 * Multiple bug fixes.
316 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
317 ---------------------------------
321 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
322 recent to work correctly
323 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
324 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
325 edit the ".hosts" file.
326 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
327 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
328 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
329 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
330 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
331 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
332 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
333 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
334 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
335 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
336 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
337 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
338 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
339 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
340 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
341 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
342 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
343 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
344 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
345 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
346 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
347 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
348 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
349 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
350 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
351 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
352 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
353 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
354 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
355 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
356 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
357 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
358 and postproc modules.
359 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
360 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
361 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
362 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
364 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
366 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
367 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
369 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
370 * Glide video output module has been removed.
376 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
378 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
379 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
382 * Vastly improved playlist support:
383 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
385 * Shoutcast TV listings
386 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
388 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
389 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
391 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
394 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
395 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
396 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
397 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
398 * JACK audio input support
399 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
400 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
401 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
402 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
403 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
404 * Experimental EyeTV access module
405 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
406 (available as a separate download).
407 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
409 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
410 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
411 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
413 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
414 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
417 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
418 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
419 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
420 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
422 * APEv1/2 tags support
423 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
424 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
426 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
427 * TiVo Series 2 support
428 * CD+G karaoke Files support
433 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
434 * Flash Screen Video support
435 * CamStudio Screen Video support
436 * DosBox Capture support
437 * Karl Morton's Video support
438 * limited atrac3 support
440 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
441 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
442 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
444 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
445 * NellyMoser ASAO support
446 * APE (Monkey audio) support
447 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
448 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
451 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
452 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
453 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
454 * AQTitle subtitles support
455 * MKV USF subtitles support
456 * HTML-based subtitles support
457 * MPSub subtitles support
458 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
459 * MPL2 subtitles support
460 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
461 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
462 * Realtext subtitle support
463 * DKS subtitle support
464 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
465 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
468 * Flash Screen Video support
469 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
471 Video outputs and filters:
472 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
473 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
474 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
475 * New puzzle video output filter
476 * Re-written motion detection video filter
477 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
479 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
480 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
481 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
482 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
483 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
484 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
485 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
486 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
487 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
488 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
489 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
490 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
491 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
492 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
494 Audio outputs and filters:
495 * Replay gain support
496 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
497 new scaletempo audio filter)
498 * New spatializer audio filter
499 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
502 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
503 * New RTP payload formats:
504 * Speex voice audio codec
505 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
506 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
507 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
508 * DCCP transport for RTP
509 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
514 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
515 end-user suitable way.
516 * Improved user interaction
517 * Improved mouse gestures
518 * Vastly improved Update checker
519 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
521 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
522 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
524 * Improved video output features
525 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
526 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
527 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
528 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
529 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
531 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
532 if libncursesw is available.
533 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
534 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
535 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
537 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
538 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
539 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
540 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
541 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
542 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
543 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
544 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
547 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
548 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
549 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
552 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
553 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
554 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
555 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
556 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
557 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
560 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
561 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
571 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
572 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
573 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
576 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
577 ----------------------------------
580 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
583 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
584 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
585 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
586 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
587 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
588 * Updated Polish translation
591 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
592 ----------------------------------
595 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
596 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
597 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
600 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
601 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
602 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
603 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
604 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
605 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
606 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
607 to an unexpected application termination
608 * New Serbian translation
609 * Updated Romanian translation
612 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
613 ----------------------------------
616 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
617 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
618 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
619 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
620 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
621 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
622 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
623 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
626 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
627 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
628 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
629 * Fixed AAC resampling
630 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
631 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
634 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
635 ----------------------------------
638 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
639 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
640 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
641 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
642 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
645 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
646 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
647 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
648 * Close MMS access on network timeout
649 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
652 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
653 ----------------------------------
656 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
657 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
660 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
661 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
662 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
663 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
665 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
669 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
672 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
675 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
678 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
681 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
682 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
683 encoding on multi-cpu systems
684 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
685 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
687 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
688 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
689 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
690 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
693 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
696 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
697 ----------------------------------
700 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
701 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
702 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
704 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
705 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
707 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
708 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
711 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
713 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
714 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
715 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
716 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
717 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
718 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
720 * Support for current Ogg file formats
721 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
722 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
725 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
728 * The automatic updating facility was removed
729 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
730 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
731 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
734 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
735 ----------------------------------
737 Various bugfixes, notably:
738 * Windows Vista compatibility
739 * Cropping in Direct3D
740 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
741 * RSS filter string overflow
743 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
745 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
746 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
749 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
750 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
753 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
756 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
759 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
762 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
763 ----------------------------------
765 Various bugfixes, notably:
766 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
767 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
768 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
769 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
770 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
771 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
774 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
775 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
778 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
780 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
781 * Diverse usability improvements
782 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
783 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
784 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
787 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
788 ---------------------------------
791 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
794 * Fullscreen controller improvements
797 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
798 --------------------------------
801 * Shoutcast TV listings support
804 * Support for RTSP authentication
805 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
806 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
807 * ATSC support for DVB input
808 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
809 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
810 * Improved support for Flash Video files
813 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
814 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
815 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
816 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
817 * Matroska WavPack support
818 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
819 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
820 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
823 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
824 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
825 * Improved libcaca support
829 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
830 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
832 * Systray support in skins
834 * Support for Apple Remote control
835 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
836 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
837 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
838 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
840 * Notifications using notification-daemon
843 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
845 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
846 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
847 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
848 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
849 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
851 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
852 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
861 * Updates to the libvlc API
862 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
865 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
866 --------------------------------
869 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
870 * Support for downloading updates
874 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
875 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
876 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
877 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
879 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
880 * Improved subtitles encoding support
881 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
884 * Cook (Real audio) support
886 Playlist / Services discovery:
887 * XSPF playlist support
889 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
892 * New JACK audio output
896 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
897 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
898 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
899 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
900 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
901 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
904 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
907 * System to inform the user and request information
908 - HTTP authentication
912 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
913 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
914 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
917 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
918 - Improved playlist handling
919 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
921 - Embedded Video output
922 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
923 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
924 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
925 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
926 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
928 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
929 - A bunch of new RPN functions
932 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
935 * Mac-Intel compatibility
936 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
937 * Growl "Now playing" support
940 * Ability to log to syslog
941 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
944 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
946 * A bit more automatic testing
949 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
950 ---------------------------------
953 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
954 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
957 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
958 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
961 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
964 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
965 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
971 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
974 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
975 --------------------------------
978 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
982 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
983 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
984 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
987 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
988 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
989 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
990 * GnomeVFS input module
991 * Support for RTP packet reordering
992 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
995 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
996 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
997 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1000 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1001 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1007 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1008 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1011 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1012 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1013 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1016 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1018 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1019 - New extended controls panel
1020 - New bookmarks window
1021 - Fixed playlist sorting
1022 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1024 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1025 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1026 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1027 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1031 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1032 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1034 - Include macro to include other files
1038 * Should now work outside IE as well
1041 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1044 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1045 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1048 The following languages were added:
1052 * Simplified Chinese
1053 The following languages were re-added:
1057 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1058 --------------------------------
1061 * Rewrite of the playlist
1063 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1064 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1065 * Preferences improvements:
1066 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1067 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1069 * Core image manipulation support
1070 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1071 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1072 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1073 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1074 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1075 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1076 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1077 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1078 * Access filter architecture
1079 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1080 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1084 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1085 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1086 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1087 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1088 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1089 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1090 * Massive Matroska improvements
1091 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1093 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1094 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1095 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1096 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1097 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1099 Decoders / Encoders:
1100 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1101 * PNG decoder/encoder
1102 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1103 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1106 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1109 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1110 * Brand new SAP module
1111 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1112 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1113 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1114 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1115 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1116 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1120 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1123 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1124 * Image file video output (png)
1125 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1126 * Improvements to wall video filter
1127 * Support for font color and opacity
1133 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1134 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1135 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1139 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1140 - Improved preferences
1141 - Improvements to the wizard
1142 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1144 - Redesigned playlist
1145 - Improved preferences
1147 - Support for multiple actions
1150 - Support for the new playlist system
1152 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1155 * Screensaver disabling fix
1156 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1157 * Support for no-decoration windows
1160 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1161 * The OpenGL video output is back
1162 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1163 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1164 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1165 is not yet available in the new module
1166 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1169 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1178 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1181 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1184 The following languages were added:
1190 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1191 --------------------------------
1194 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1195 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1198 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1199 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1200 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1203 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1206 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1209 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1212 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1213 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1214 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1218 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1220 * Support of playlist group announcement
1223 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1224 --------------------------------
1227 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1228 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1229 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1230 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1231 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1232 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1235 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1236 (Stream your desktop)
1237 * Improved DVD support:
1238 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1239 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1240 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1241 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1242 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1243 (selection of titles/chapters).
1246 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1247 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1248 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1249 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1250 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1251 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1252 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1253 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1254 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1255 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1258 * G.726 audio support
1259 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1260 * MPEG-4 text support
1261 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1262 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1263 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1267 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1268 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1269 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1270 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1271 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1272 * DVB subtitles encoder
1273 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1274 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1276 * Text track muxing for mp4
1277 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1278 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1279 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1280 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1281 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1282 * Improved ASF muxer
1284 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1285 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1286 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1289 * New audio equalizer filter
1290 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1291 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1292 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1293 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1296 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1297 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1298 with support for effects.
1299 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1300 - New filters can be streamed.
1301 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1302 - Centralized scaling and blending
1304 - "time", to display current time
1305 - "marq", to display a marquee
1308 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1309 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1310 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1311 * A few skins2 improvements
1312 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1313 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1314 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1315 * Improved CORBA control module
1318 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1319 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1320 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1323 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1324 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1325 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1328 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1329 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1330 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1331 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1332 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1335 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1338 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1339 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1342 * Server/client network synchronization module
1343 * VBrick streams fully supported
1344 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1348 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1349 --------------------------------
1352 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1353 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1354 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1355 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1358 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1359 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1360 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1361 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1362 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1363 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1364 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1367 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1368 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1369 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1370 * Improved directory access module.
1371 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1372 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1373 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1374 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1375 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1378 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1379 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1380 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1383 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1384 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1385 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1388 * Improved session announcement system.
1389 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1390 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1391 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1392 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1393 * Improved transrater.
1394 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1395 * New configuration system.
1396 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1399 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1400 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1401 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1402 * Supports scheduling.
1403 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1404 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1407 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1408 - Ability to embed video output.
1409 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1410 - Lots of improvements.
1411 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1412 - New design and set of icons.
1413 - Ability to embed video output.
1414 - Support for hotkeys.
1415 - Support for bookmarks.
1417 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1418 - Better hotkeys handling.
1421 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1422 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1423 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1424 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1427 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1428 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1429 * Improved Windows installer.
1435 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1436 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1439 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1440 ---------------------------------
1443 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1444 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1447 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1448 --------------------------------
1451 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1452 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1455 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1456 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1457 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1458 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1461 * Internal improvments
1462 * Improved import/export
1465 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1467 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1468 small and strange formats.
1470 * New MOD audio demux.
1471 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1472 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1473 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1474 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1477 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1478 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1479 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1485 * New opengl video output plugin.
1488 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1489 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1492 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1493 --------------------------------
1496 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1497 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1498 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1499 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1500 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1501 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1502 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1503 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1506 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1511 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1512 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1513 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1514 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1515 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1516 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1517 * Better Icecast support.
1518 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1519 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1522 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1523 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1524 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1525 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1526 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1527 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1528 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1531 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1532 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1533 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1534 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1535 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1536 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1537 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1538 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1539 * Preliminary RTP support.
1540 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1545 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1546 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1548 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1549 - Improvements and help in preferences
1550 - New streaming wizard
1551 - Revised Disc Open menu
1553 - Improvements of the standard pages
1554 - Support for new commands
1555 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1558 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1559 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1562 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1563 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1564 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1565 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1566 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1567 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1568 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1569 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1570 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1573 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1575 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1576 * Support for Panther.
1577 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1578 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1581 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1582 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1583 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1584 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1585 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1586 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1587 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1588 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1591 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1592 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1593 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1596 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1599 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1600 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1601 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1602 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1605 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1606 --------------------------------
1609 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1612 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1613 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1616 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1617 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1620 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1623 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1624 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1627 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1630 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1633 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1634 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1638 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1639 --------------------------------
1642 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1643 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1647 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1648 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1649 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1651 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1652 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1655 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1658 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1661 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1662 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1666 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1667 --------------------------------
1670 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1671 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1675 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1676 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1677 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1678 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1679 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1682 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1683 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1684 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1687 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1688 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1689 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1692 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1693 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1694 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1695 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1696 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1699 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1700 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1701 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1704 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1707 * Improved build system.
1708 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1709 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1710 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1711 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1714 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1715 --------------------------------
1718 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1721 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1722 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1723 * Video 4 Linux support
1724 * CD Digital Audio support
1725 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1728 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1729 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1730 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1731 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1734 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1735 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1736 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1737 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1738 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1739 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1740 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1743 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1744 * New HTTP remote control interface
1747 * 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.
1748 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1749 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1750 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1753 * New reset option for the preferences
1754 * You can set your language in the prefences
1755 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1756 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1757 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1758 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1761 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1762 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1763 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1766 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1767 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1768 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1769 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1770 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1771 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1772 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1773 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1774 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1775 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1778 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1779 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1780 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1781 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1782 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1783 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1784 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1787 * Interface localization
1788 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1789 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1790 * New full-featured Preferences window
1793 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1794 --------------------------------
1797 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1798 * support for skins at the interface level
1799 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1800 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1801 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1802 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1803 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1806 * fixed HTTP redirects
1807 * support for opening an entire directory
1808 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1809 * new video4linux access plug-in
1810 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1813 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1814 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1815 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1818 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1819 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1820 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1821 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1822 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1823 * new codec for raw I420 video
1824 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1827 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1828 (although it still misses some important features)
1829 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1832 * new HTTP output support
1833 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1834 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1837 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1840 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1843 * reorderable playlist
1844 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1845 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1846 * support for mono audio output devices
1847 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1848 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1849 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1850 * the messages window remembers more lines
1851 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1852 * http and ogg stream output options
1853 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1856 * new skinnable interface
1857 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1859 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1860 * support for FLAC audio format
1861 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1863 * network tab in the interface
1864 * "apply" handling in preferences
1867 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1868 ---------------------------------
1871 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1872 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1873 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1874 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1876 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1877 * DTS S/PDIF support
1880 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1881 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1882 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1883 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1886 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1887 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1890 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1893 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1896 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1898 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1899 * rc interface is now fully useable
1900 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1903 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1904 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1905 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1906 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1907 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1909 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1910 * support for mouse gestures
1911 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1914 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1915 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1918 * improved ID3 tag detection
1919 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1920 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1921 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1923 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1926 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1927 ---------------------------------
1930 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1931 English was set as the preferred language
1934 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1935 --------------------------------
1938 * new mouse gesture interface
1939 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1943 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1944 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1945 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1948 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1949 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1953 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1956 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1957 without the user consent
1960 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1962 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1963 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1964 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1967 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1968 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1969 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1970 * playlist enhancements
1971 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1972 * new step forward/step backward commands
1973 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1974 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1975 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1978 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1979 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1980 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1983 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1984 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1987 * native video output is working again
1988 * only commandline interface support
1989 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1992 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1993 --------------------------------
1996 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1997 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1998 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1999 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2000 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2001 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2002 and A/52 streams are supported)
2003 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2008 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2009 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2010 * VCD entry points support
2011 * VCD image file support
2014 * support for *.asf format
2015 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2016 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2017 * support for ogg encapsulation
2018 * support for raw DV format
2019 * support for *.wav format
2020 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2023 Stream discovery & playlists:
2024 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2025 * support for .m3u file format
2026 * support for .asx file format
2027 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2030 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2031 (only available with the .avi demux)
2032 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2033 * support for raw PCM data
2034 * support for Cinepak video codec
2035 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2036 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2037 * support for Xvid codec
2038 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2039 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2040 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2042 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2044 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2047 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2050 * new WxWindows interface
2051 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2052 device and the channels configuration
2053 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2054 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2055 format that VLC can play
2056 * new swedish translation
2057 * enhancements of the playlist window
2058 * new messages window to see debug info
2059 * fixed a few crashes
2062 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2063 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2064 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2065 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working