3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
17 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
18 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
22 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
24 * Improved user interaction
26 * Full Screen controller panel
28 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
29 --------------------------------
32 * Shoutcast TV listings support
35 * Support for RTSP authentication
36 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
37 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
38 * ATSC support for DVB
41 * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
42 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
45 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
46 * Improved libcaca support
49 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
50 * Systray support in skins (Windows only)
51 * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux
52 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
54 - Support for Apple Remote control
55 - Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
56 - Main Menu keeps accessible when playing in fullscreen mode
62 * Updates to the libvlc API
65 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
66 ---------------------------------
69 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
70 * Support for downloading updates
74 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
75 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
76 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
77 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
79 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
80 * Improved subtitles encoding support
81 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
84 * Cook (Real audio) support
86 Playlist / Services discovery:
87 * XSPF playlist support
89 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
92 * New JACK audio output
96 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
97 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
98 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
99 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
100 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
101 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
104 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
107 * System to inform the user and request information
108 - HTTP authentication
112 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
113 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
114 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
117 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
118 - Improved playlist handling
119 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
121 - Embedded Video output
122 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
123 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
124 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
125 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
126 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
128 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
129 - A bunch of new RPN functions
132 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
135 * Mac-Intel compatibility
136 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
137 * Growl "Now playing" support
140 * Ability to log to syslog
141 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
144 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
146 * A bit more automatic testing
148 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
149 ---------------------------------
152 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
153 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
156 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
157 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
160 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
163 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
164 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
170 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
172 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
173 --------------------------------
176 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
180 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
181 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
182 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
185 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
186 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
187 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
188 * GnomeVFS input module
189 * Support for RTP packet reordering
190 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
193 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
194 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
195 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
198 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
199 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
205 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
206 Mixer and Dolby Surround
209 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
210 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
211 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
214 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
216 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
217 - New extended controls panel
218 - New bookmarks window
219 - Fixed playlist sorting
220 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
222 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
223 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
224 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
225 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
229 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
230 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
232 - Include macro to include other files
236 * Should now work outside IE as well
239 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
242 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
243 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
246 The following languages were added:
251 The following languages were re-added:
254 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
255 --------------------------------
258 * Rewrite of the playlist
260 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
261 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
262 * Preferences improvements:
263 - New organization, designed to improve usability
264 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
266 * Core image manipulation support
267 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
268 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
269 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
270 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
271 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
272 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
273 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
274 now separated by ':' instead of ','
275 * Access filter architecture
276 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
277 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
281 * Support for SOCKS proxy
282 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
283 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
284 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
285 * Better support for Kasenna streams
286 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
287 * Massive Matroska improvements
288 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
290 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
291 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
292 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
293 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
294 * Support for FTP over IPv6
297 * Dirac decoder and encoder
298 * PNG decoder/encoder
299 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
300 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
303 * New Record and Timeshift filters
306 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
307 * Brand new SAP module
308 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
309 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
310 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
311 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
312 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
313 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
317 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
320 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
321 * Image file video output (png)
322 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
323 * Improvements to wall video filter
324 * Support for font color and opacity
330 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
331 - Seeking support in VoD streams
332 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
336 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
337 - Improved preferences
338 - Improvements to the wizard
339 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
341 - Redesigned playlist
342 - Improved preferences
344 - Support for multiple actions
347 - Support for the new playlist system
349 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
352 * Screensaver disabling fix
353 * DirectShow tuner configuration
354 * Support for no-decoration windows
357 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
358 * The OpenGL video output is back
359 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
360 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
361 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
362 is not yet available in the new module
363 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
366 * Support for single-buffered overlay
375 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
378 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
381 The following languages were added:
387 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
388 -----------------------------------------------------
391 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
392 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
395 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
396 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
397 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
400 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
403 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
406 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
409 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
410 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
411 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
415 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
417 * Support of playlist group announcement
419 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
420 -----------------------------------------------------
423 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
424 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
425 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
426 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
427 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
428 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
431 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
432 (Stream your desktop)
433 * Improved DVD support:
434 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
435 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
436 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
437 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
438 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
439 (selection of titles/chapters).
442 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
443 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
444 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
445 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
446 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
447 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
448 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
449 * Improved Ogg demuxer
450 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
451 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
454 * G.726 audio support
455 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
456 * MPEG-4 text support
457 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
458 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
459 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
463 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
464 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
465 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
466 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
467 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
468 * DVB subtitles encoder
469 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
470 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
472 * Text track muxing for mp4
473 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
474 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
475 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
476 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
477 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
480 * H.263 RTP streaming support
481 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
482 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
485 * New audio equalizer filter
486 * Very trivial volume normalizer
487 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
488 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
489 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
492 * Roku HD1000 Video output
493 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
494 with support for effects.
495 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
496 - New filters can be streamed.
497 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
498 - Centralized scaling and blending
500 - "time", to display current time
501 - "marq", to display a marquee
504 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
505 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
506 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
507 * A few skins2 improvements
508 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
509 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
510 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
511 * Improved CORBA control module
514 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
515 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
516 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
519 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
520 * Experimental SVG rendering module
521 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
524 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
525 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
526 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
527 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
528 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
531 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
534 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
535 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
538 * Server/client network synchronization module
539 * VBrick streams fully supported
540 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
543 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
544 --------------------------------
547 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
548 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
549 * Improved HTTP daemon.
550 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
553 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
554 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
555 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
556 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
557 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
558 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
559 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
562 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
563 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
564 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
565 * Improved directory access module.
566 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
567 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
568 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
569 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
570 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
573 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
574 * mmsh streaming fixes.
575 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
578 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
579 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
580 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
583 * Improved session announcement system.
584 * Minimize threads usage by default.
585 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
586 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
587 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
588 * Improved transrater.
589 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
590 * New configuration system.
591 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
594 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
595 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
596 * Supports live streams and VoD.
597 * Supports scheduling.
598 * Telnet interface for vlm.
599 * HTTP interface for vlm.
602 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
603 - Ability to embed video output.
604 - Support for bitmap fonts.
605 - Lots of improvements.
606 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
607 - New design and set of icons.
608 - Ability to embed video output.
609 - Support for hotkeys.
610 - Support for bookmarks.
612 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
613 - Better hotkeys handling.
616 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
617 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
618 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
619 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
622 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
623 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
624 * Improved Windows installer.
630 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
631 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
633 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
634 ---------------------------------
637 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
638 * Playing MOD files is working now.
641 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
642 ---------------------------------
645 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
646 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
649 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
650 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
651 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
652 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
655 * Internal improvments
656 * Improved import/export
659 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
661 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
662 small and strange formats.
664 * New MOD audio demux.
665 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
666 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
667 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
668 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
671 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
672 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
673 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
679 * New opengl video output plugin.
682 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
683 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
685 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
686 ---------------------------------
689 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
690 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
691 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
692 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
693 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
694 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
695 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
696 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
699 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
704 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
705 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
706 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
707 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
708 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
709 * Reworked DVB tuning.
710 * Better Icecast support.
711 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
712 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
715 * Support for Theora video encoding.
716 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
717 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
718 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
719 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
720 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
721 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
724 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
725 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
726 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
727 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
728 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
729 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
730 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
731 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
732 * Preliminary RTP support.
733 * Fixes to SAP announces.
738 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
739 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
741 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
742 - Improvements and help in preferences
743 - New streaming wizard
744 - Revised Disc Open menu
746 - Improvements of the standard pages
747 - Support for new commands
748 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
751 * Many fixes to the SAP module
752 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
755 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
756 * Text subtitles autodetection.
757 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
758 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
759 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
760 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
761 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
762 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
763 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
766 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
768 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
769 * Support for Panther.
770 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
771 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
774 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
775 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
776 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
777 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
778 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
779 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
780 * Multimonitor support (untested).
781 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
784 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
785 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
786 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
789 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
792 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
793 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
794 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
795 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
797 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
798 ---------------------------------
801 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
804 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
805 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
808 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
809 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
812 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
815 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
816 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
819 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
822 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
825 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
826 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
829 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
830 ---------------------------------
833 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
834 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
838 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
839 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
840 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
842 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
843 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
846 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
849 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
852 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
853 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
856 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
857 ---------------------------------
860 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
861 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
865 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
866 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
867 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
868 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
869 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
872 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
873 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
874 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
877 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
878 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
879 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
882 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
883 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
884 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
885 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
886 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
889 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
890 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
891 * A new CORBA control plugin.
894 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
897 * Improved build system.
898 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
899 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
900 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
901 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
904 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
905 ---------------------------------
908 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
911 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
912 * Fixed large file support on Windows
913 * Video 4 Linux support
914 * CD Digital Audio support
915 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
918 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
919 * Support for OpenDML avi files
920 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
921 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
924 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
925 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
926 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
927 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
928 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
929 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
930 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
933 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
934 * New HTTP remote control interface
937 * 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.
938 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
939 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
940 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
943 * New reset option for the preferences
944 * You can set your language in the prefences
945 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
946 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
947 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
948 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
951 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
952 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
953 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
956 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
957 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
958 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
959 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
960 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
961 * New icons by Davor Orel.
962 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
963 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
964 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
965 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
968 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
969 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
970 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
971 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
972 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
973 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
974 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
977 * Interface localization
978 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
979 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
980 * New full-featured Preferences window
982 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
983 ---------------------------------
986 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
987 * support for skins at the interface level
988 * new OSD module using Freetype2
989 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
990 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
991 input level before dropping out of date frames.
992 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
995 * fixed HTTP redirects
996 * support for opening an entire directory
997 * EOF should be detected more reliably
998 * new video4linux access plug-in
999 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1002 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1003 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1004 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1007 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1008 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1009 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1010 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1011 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1012 * new codec for raw I420 video
1013 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1016 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1017 (although it still misses some important features)
1018 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1021 * new HTTP output support
1022 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1023 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1026 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1029 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1032 * reorderable playlist
1033 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1034 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1035 * support for mono audio output devices
1036 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1037 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1038 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1039 * the messages window remembers more lines
1040 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1041 * http and ogg stream output options
1042 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1045 * new skinnable interface
1046 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1048 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1049 * support for FLAC audio format
1050 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1052 * network tab in the interface
1053 * "apply" handling in preferences
1056 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1057 ---------------------------------
1060 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1061 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1062 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1063 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1065 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1066 * DTS S/PDIF support
1069 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1070 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1071 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1072 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1075 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1076 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1079 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1082 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1085 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1087 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1088 * rc interface is now fully useable
1089 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1092 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1093 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1094 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1095 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1096 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1098 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1099 * support for mouse gestures
1100 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1103 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1104 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1107 * improved ID3 tag detection
1108 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1109 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1110 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1112 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1115 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1116 ---------------------------------
1119 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1120 English was set as the preferred language
1123 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1124 --------------------------------
1127 * new mouse gesture interface
1128 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1132 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1133 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1134 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1137 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1138 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1142 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1145 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1146 without the user consent
1149 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1151 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1152 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1153 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1156 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1157 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1158 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1159 * playlist enhancements
1160 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1161 * new step forward/step backward commands
1162 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1163 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1164 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1167 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1168 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1169 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1172 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1173 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1176 * native video output is working again
1177 * only commandline interface support
1178 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1181 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1182 --------------------------------
1185 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1186 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1187 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1188 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1189 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1190 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1191 and A/52 streams are supported)
1192 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1197 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1198 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1199 * VCD entry points support
1200 * VCD image file support
1203 * support for *.asf format
1204 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1205 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1206 * support for ogg encapsulation
1207 * support for raw DV format
1208 * support for *.wav format
1209 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1212 Stream discovery & playlists:
1213 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1214 * support for .m3u file format
1215 * support for .asx file format
1216 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1219 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1220 (only available with the .avi demux)
1221 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1222 * support for raw PCM data
1223 * support for Cinepak video codec
1224 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1225 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1226 * support for Xvid codec
1227 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1228 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1229 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1231 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1233 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1236 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1239 * new WxWindows interface
1240 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1241 device and the channels configuration
1242 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1243 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1244 format that VLC can play
1245 * new swedish translation
1246 * enhancements of the playlist window
1247 * new messages window to see debug info
1248 * fixed a few crashes
1251 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1252 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1253 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1254 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working