1 Changes between 0.9.1 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
16 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
17 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.1:
20 ---------------------------------
22 Note: version 0.9.0 was skipped due to bugs being discovered at the last
27 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
28 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
29 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
30 edit the ".hosts" file.
31 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
32 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
33 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
34 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
35 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
36 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
37 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
38 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
39 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
40 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
42 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
43 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
44 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
45 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
46 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
47 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
48 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
49 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
50 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
51 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
52 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
53 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
54 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
55 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
56 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
57 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
58 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
59 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
60 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
61 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
62 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
64 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
65 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
66 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
67 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
69 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
71 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
72 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
74 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
75 * Glide video output module has been removed.
76 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
77 It does not work on windows for this version. Help is needed!
83 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
84 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
85 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
88 * Vastly improved playlist support:
89 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
91 * Shoutcast TV listings
92 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
94 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
95 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
96 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
99 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
100 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
101 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
102 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
103 * JACK audio input support
104 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
105 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
106 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
107 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
108 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
109 * Experimental EyeTV access module
110 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
111 (available as a separate download).
112 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
114 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
115 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
116 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
118 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
119 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
122 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
123 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
124 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
125 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
127 * APEv1/2 tags support
128 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
129 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
131 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
132 * TiVo Series 2 support
133 * CD+G karaoke Files support
138 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
139 * Flash Screen Video support
140 * CamStudio Screen Video support
141 * DosBox Capture support
142 * Karl Morton's Video support
143 * limited atrac3 support
145 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
146 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
147 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
149 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
150 * NellyMoser ASAO support
151 * APE (Monkey audio) support
152 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
153 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
156 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
157 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
158 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
159 * AQTitle subtitles support
160 * MKV USF subtitles support
161 * HTML-based subtitles support
162 * MPSub subtitles support
163 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
164 * MPL2 subtitles support
165 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
166 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
167 * Realtext subtitle support
168 * DKS subtitle support
169 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
170 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
173 * Flash Screen Video support
174 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
176 Video outputs and filters:
177 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
178 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
179 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
180 * New puzzle video output filter
181 * Re-written motion detection video filter
182 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
184 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
185 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
186 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
187 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
188 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
189 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
190 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
191 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
192 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
193 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
194 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
195 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
196 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
197 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
199 Audio outputs and filters:
200 * Replay gain support
201 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
202 new scaletempo audio filter)
203 * New spatializer audio filter
204 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
207 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
208 * New RTP payload formats:
209 * Speex voice audio codec
210 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
211 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
212 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
213 * DCCP transport for RTP
214 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
219 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
220 end-user suitable way.
221 * Improved user interaction
222 * Improved mouse gestures
223 * Vastly improved Update checker
224 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
226 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
227 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
229 * Improved video output features
230 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
231 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
232 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
233 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
234 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
236 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
237 if libncursesw is available.
238 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
239 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
240 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
242 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
243 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
244 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
245 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
246 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
247 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
248 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
249 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
252 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
253 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
254 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
257 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
258 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
259 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
260 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
261 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
262 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
265 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
266 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
276 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
277 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
278 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
281 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
282 ----------------------------------
285 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
288 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
289 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
290 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
291 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
292 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
293 * Updated Polish translation
296 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
297 ----------------------------------
300 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
301 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
302 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
305 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
306 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
307 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
308 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
309 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
310 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
311 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
312 to an unexpected application termination
313 * New Serbian translation
314 * Updated Romanian translation
317 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
318 ----------------------------------
321 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
322 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
323 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
324 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
325 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
326 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
327 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
328 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
331 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
332 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
333 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
334 * Fixed AAC resampling
335 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
336 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
339 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
340 ----------------------------------
343 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
344 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
345 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
346 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
347 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
350 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
351 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
352 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
353 * Close MMS access on network timeout
354 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
357 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
358 ----------------------------------
361 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
362 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
365 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
366 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
367 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
368 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
370 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
374 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
377 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
380 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
383 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
386 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
387 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
388 encoding on multi-cpu systems
389 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
390 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
392 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
393 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
394 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
395 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
398 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
401 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
402 ----------------------------------
405 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
406 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
407 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
409 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
410 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
412 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
413 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
416 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
418 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
419 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
420 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
421 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
422 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
423 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
425 * Support for current Ogg file formats
426 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
427 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
430 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
433 * The automatic updating facility was removed
434 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
435 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
436 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
439 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
440 ----------------------------------
442 Various bugfixes, notably:
443 * Windows Vista compatibility
444 * Cropping in Direct3D
445 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
446 * RSS filter string overflow
448 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
450 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
451 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
454 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
455 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
458 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
461 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
464 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
467 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
468 ----------------------------------
470 Various bugfixes, notably:
471 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
472 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
473 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
474 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
475 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
476 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
479 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
480 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
483 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
485 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
486 * Diverse usability improvements
487 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
488 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
489 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
492 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
493 ---------------------------------
496 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
499 * Fullscreen controller improvements
502 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
503 --------------------------------
506 * Shoutcast TV listings support
509 * Support for RTSP authentication
510 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
511 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
512 * ATSC support for DVB input
513 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
514 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
515 * Improved support for Flash Video files
518 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
519 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
520 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
521 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
522 * Matroska WavPack support
523 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
524 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
525 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
528 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
529 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
530 * Improved libcaca support
534 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
535 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
537 * Systray support in skins
539 * Support for Apple Remote control
540 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
541 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
542 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
543 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
545 * Notifications using notification-daemon
548 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
550 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
551 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
552 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
553 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
554 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
556 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
557 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
566 * Updates to the libvlc API
567 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
570 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
571 --------------------------------
574 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
575 * Support for downloading updates
579 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
580 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
581 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
582 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
584 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
585 * Improved subtitles encoding support
586 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
589 * Cook (Real audio) support
591 Playlist / Services discovery:
592 * XSPF playlist support
594 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
597 * New JACK audio output
601 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
602 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
603 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
604 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
605 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
606 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
609 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
612 * System to inform the user and request information
613 - HTTP authentication
617 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
618 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
619 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
622 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
623 - Improved playlist handling
624 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
626 - Embedded Video output
627 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
628 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
629 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
630 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
631 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
633 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
634 - A bunch of new RPN functions
637 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
640 * Mac-Intel compatibility
641 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
642 * Growl "Now playing" support
645 * Ability to log to syslog
646 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
649 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
651 * A bit more automatic testing
654 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
655 ---------------------------------
658 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
659 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
662 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
663 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
666 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
669 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
670 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
676 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
679 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
680 --------------------------------
683 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
687 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
688 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
689 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
692 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
693 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
694 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
695 * GnomeVFS input module
696 * Support for RTP packet reordering
697 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
700 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
701 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
702 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
705 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
706 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
712 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
713 Mixer and Dolby Surround
716 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
717 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
718 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
721 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
723 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
724 - New extended controls panel
725 - New bookmarks window
726 - Fixed playlist sorting
727 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
729 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
730 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
731 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
732 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
736 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
737 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
739 - Include macro to include other files
743 * Should now work outside IE as well
746 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
749 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
750 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
753 The following languages were added:
758 The following languages were re-added:
762 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
763 --------------------------------
766 * Rewrite of the playlist
768 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
769 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
770 * Preferences improvements:
771 - New organization, designed to improve usability
772 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
774 * Core image manipulation support
775 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
776 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
777 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
778 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
779 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
780 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
781 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
782 now separated by ':' instead of ','
783 * Access filter architecture
784 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
785 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
789 * Support for SOCKS proxy
790 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
791 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
792 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
793 * Better support for Kasenna streams
794 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
795 * Massive Matroska improvements
796 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
798 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
799 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
800 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
801 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
802 * Support for FTP over IPv6
805 * Dirac decoder and encoder
806 * PNG decoder/encoder
807 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
808 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
811 * New Record and Timeshift filters
814 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
815 * Brand new SAP module
816 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
817 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
818 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
819 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
820 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
821 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
825 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
828 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
829 * Image file video output (png)
830 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
831 * Improvements to wall video filter
832 * Support for font color and opacity
838 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
839 - Seeking support in VoD streams
840 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
844 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
845 - Improved preferences
846 - Improvements to the wizard
847 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
849 - Redesigned playlist
850 - Improved preferences
852 - Support for multiple actions
855 - Support for the new playlist system
857 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
860 * Screensaver disabling fix
861 * DirectShow tuner configuration
862 * Support for no-decoration windows
865 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
866 * The OpenGL video output is back
867 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
868 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
869 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
870 is not yet available in the new module
871 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
874 * Support for single-buffered overlay
883 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
886 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
889 The following languages were added:
895 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
896 --------------------------------
899 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
900 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
903 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
904 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
905 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
908 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
911 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
914 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
917 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
918 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
919 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
923 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
925 * Support of playlist group announcement
928 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
933 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
934 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
935 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
936 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
937 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
940 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
941 (Stream your desktop)
942 * Improved DVD support:
943 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
944 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
945 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
946 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
947 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
948 (selection of titles/chapters).
951 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
952 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
953 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
954 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
955 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
956 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
957 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
958 * Improved Ogg demuxer
959 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
960 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
963 * G.726 audio support
964 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
965 * MPEG-4 text support
966 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
967 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
968 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
972 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
973 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
974 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
975 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
976 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
977 * DVB subtitles encoder
978 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
979 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
981 * Text track muxing for mp4
982 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
983 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
984 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
985 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
986 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
989 * H.263 RTP streaming support
990 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
991 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
994 * New audio equalizer filter
995 * Very trivial volume normalizer
996 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
997 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
998 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1001 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1002 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1003 with support for effects.
1004 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1005 - New filters can be streamed.
1006 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1007 - Centralized scaling and blending
1009 - "time", to display current time
1010 - "marq", to display a marquee
1013 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1014 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1015 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1016 * A few skins2 improvements
1017 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1018 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1019 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1020 * Improved CORBA control module
1023 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1024 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1025 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1028 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1029 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1030 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1033 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1034 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1035 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1036 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1037 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1040 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1043 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1044 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1047 * Server/client network synchronization module
1048 * VBrick streams fully supported
1049 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1053 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1058 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1059 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1060 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1063 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1064 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1065 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1066 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1067 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1068 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1069 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1072 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1073 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1074 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1075 * Improved directory access module.
1076 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1077 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1078 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1079 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1080 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1083 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1084 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1085 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1088 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1089 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1090 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1093 * Improved session announcement system.
1094 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1095 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1096 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1097 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1098 * Improved transrater.
1099 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1100 * New configuration system.
1101 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1104 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1105 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1106 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1107 * Supports scheduling.
1108 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1109 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1112 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1113 - Ability to embed video output.
1114 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1115 - Lots of improvements.
1116 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1117 - New design and set of icons.
1118 - Ability to embed video output.
1119 - Support for hotkeys.
1120 - Support for bookmarks.
1122 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1123 - Better hotkeys handling.
1126 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1127 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1128 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1129 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1132 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1133 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1134 * Improved Windows installer.
1140 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1141 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1144 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1145 ---------------------------------
1148 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1149 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1152 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1153 --------------------------------
1156 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1157 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1160 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1161 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1162 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1163 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1166 * Internal improvments
1167 * Improved import/export
1170 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1172 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1173 small and strange formats.
1175 * New MOD audio demux.
1176 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1177 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1178 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1179 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1182 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1183 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1184 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1190 * New opengl video output plugin.
1193 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1194 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1197 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1198 --------------------------------
1201 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1202 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1203 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1204 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1205 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1206 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1207 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1208 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1211 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1216 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1217 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1218 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1219 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1220 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1221 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1222 * Better Icecast support.
1223 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1224 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1227 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1228 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1229 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1230 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1231 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1232 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1233 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1236 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1237 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1238 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1239 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1240 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1241 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1242 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1243 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1244 * Preliminary RTP support.
1245 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1250 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1251 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1253 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1254 - Improvements and help in preferences
1255 - New streaming wizard
1256 - Revised Disc Open menu
1258 - Improvements of the standard pages
1259 - Support for new commands
1260 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1263 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1264 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1267 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1268 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1269 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1270 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1271 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1272 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1273 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1274 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1275 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1278 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1280 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1281 * Support for Panther.
1282 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1283 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1286 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1287 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1288 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1289 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1290 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1291 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1292 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1293 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1296 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1297 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1298 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1301 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1304 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1305 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1306 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1307 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1310 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1311 --------------------------------
1314 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1317 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1318 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1321 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1322 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1325 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1328 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1329 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1332 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1335 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1338 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1339 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1343 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1344 --------------------------------
1347 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1348 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1352 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1353 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1354 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1356 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1357 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1360 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1363 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1366 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1367 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1371 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1372 --------------------------------
1375 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1376 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1380 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1381 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1382 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1383 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1384 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1387 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1388 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1389 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1392 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1393 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1394 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1397 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1398 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1399 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1400 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1401 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1404 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1405 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1406 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1409 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1412 * Improved build system.
1413 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1414 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1415 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1416 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1419 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1420 --------------------------------
1423 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1426 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1427 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1428 * Video 4 Linux support
1429 * CD Digital Audio support
1430 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1433 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1434 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1435 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1436 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1439 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1440 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1441 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1442 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1443 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1444 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1445 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1448 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1449 * New HTTP remote control interface
1452 * 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.
1453 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1454 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1455 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1458 * New reset option for the preferences
1459 * You can set your language in the prefences
1460 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1461 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1462 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1463 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1466 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1467 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1468 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1471 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1472 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1473 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1474 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1475 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1476 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1477 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1478 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1479 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1480 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1483 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1484 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1485 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1486 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1487 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1488 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1489 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1492 * Interface localization
1493 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1494 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1495 * New full-featured Preferences window
1498 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1499 --------------------------------
1502 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1503 * support for skins at the interface level
1504 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1505 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1506 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1507 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1508 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1511 * fixed HTTP redirects
1512 * support for opening an entire directory
1513 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1514 * new video4linux access plug-in
1515 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1518 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1519 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1520 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1523 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1524 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1525 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1526 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1527 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1528 * new codec for raw I420 video
1529 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1532 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1533 (although it still misses some important features)
1534 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1537 * new HTTP output support
1538 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1539 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1542 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1545 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1548 * reorderable playlist
1549 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1550 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1551 * support for mono audio output devices
1552 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1553 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1554 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1555 * the messages window remembers more lines
1556 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1557 * http and ogg stream output options
1558 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1561 * new skinnable interface
1562 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1564 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1565 * support for FLAC audio format
1566 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1568 * network tab in the interface
1569 * "apply" handling in preferences
1572 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1573 ---------------------------------
1576 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1577 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1578 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1579 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1581 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1582 * DTS S/PDIF support
1585 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1586 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1587 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1588 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1591 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1592 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1595 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1598 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1601 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1603 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1604 * rc interface is now fully useable
1605 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1608 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1609 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1610 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1611 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1612 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1614 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1615 * support for mouse gestures
1616 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1619 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1620 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1623 * improved ID3 tag detection
1624 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1625 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1626 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1628 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1631 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1632 ---------------------------------
1635 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1636 English was set as the preferred language
1639 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1640 --------------------------------
1643 * new mouse gesture interface
1644 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1648 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1649 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1650 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1653 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1654 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1658 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1661 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1662 without the user consent
1665 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1667 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1668 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1669 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1672 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1673 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1674 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1675 * playlist enhancements
1676 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1677 * new step forward/step backward commands
1678 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1679 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1680 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1683 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1684 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1685 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1688 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1689 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1692 * native video output is working again
1693 * only commandline interface support
1694 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1697 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1698 --------------------------------
1701 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1702 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1703 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1704 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1705 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1706 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1707 and A/52 streams are supported)
1708 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1713 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1714 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1715 * VCD entry points support
1716 * VCD image file support
1719 * support for *.asf format
1720 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1721 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1722 * support for ogg encapsulation
1723 * support for raw DV format
1724 * support for *.wav format
1725 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1728 Stream discovery & playlists:
1729 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1730 * support for .m3u file format
1731 * support for .asx file format
1732 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1735 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1736 (only available with the .avi demux)
1737 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1738 * support for raw PCM data
1739 * support for Cinepak video codec
1740 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1741 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1742 * support for Xvid codec
1743 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1744 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1745 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1747 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1749 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1752 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1755 * new WxWindows interface
1756 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1757 device and the channels configuration
1758 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1759 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1760 format that VLC can play
1761 * new swedish translation
1762 * enhancements of the playlist window
1763 * new messages window to see debug info
1764 * fixed a few crashes
1767 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1768 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1769 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1770 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working