1 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
8 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
11 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
14 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
15 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
16 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
17 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
18 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
19 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
22 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
23 --------------------------------
24 Important changes for users:
25 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
26 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
28 Important changes for packagers:
29 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
30 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
31 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
32 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
33 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
35 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
37 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
38 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
39 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
40 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
41 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
44 * Support for the sftp protocol
45 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
46 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
47 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
48 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
49 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
52 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
53 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
54 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
56 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
57 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
58 * Invmem module improvements
59 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
60 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
61 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
62 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
63 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
64 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
65 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
66 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
67 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
68 * Support for VP8 codec
71 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
72 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
73 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
74 * Various EGP improvements
75 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
76 * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format
77 * Metadata and cover art improvements
80 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
81 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
82 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
83 * Podcast images are now displayed
86 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
87 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
88 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
89 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
90 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
91 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
92 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
93 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
94 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
95 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
96 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
99 * New content extensions lua framework
102 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
103 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
104 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
105 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
106 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
107 * NEON assembly audio converter module
108 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
111 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
114 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
115 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
116 * Service discovery based on libudev
117 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
120 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
121 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
122 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
123 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
124 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
125 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
126 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
129 * New smem module, streaming to memory
130 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
131 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
134 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
136 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
137 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
140 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
141 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
142 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
143 by Andy Matuschak et al.
144 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
145 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
146 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
149 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
150 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
153 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
154 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
155 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
159 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
160 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
161 * Improved Solaris port
164 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
165 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
168 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
169 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
170 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
171 * transrate: broken since too long
172 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
173 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
174 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
175 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
176 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
177 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
178 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
179 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
180 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
181 * cddax: use cdda instead.
182 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
183 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
184 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
185 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
188 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
189 --------------------------------
192 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
194 Decoders/Packetizers:
195 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
198 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
199 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
200 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
201 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
202 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
205 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
206 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
209 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
210 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
213 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
214 and Walloon translations updated
215 * Sinhala translation started
218 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
219 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
222 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
223 --------------------------------
226 * SubRip extra styles improvements
227 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
230 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
233 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
234 increase performance and fix x264 issues
237 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
238 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
239 Russian, Slovak translation updates
240 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
243 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
244 --------------------------------
247 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
248 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
251 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
252 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
255 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
256 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
259 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
262 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
263 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
266 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
267 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
270 * New Walloon translation
271 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
274 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
275 --------------------------------
278 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
279 regressions in most popular drivers
280 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
283 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
284 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
285 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
288 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
289 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
292 * Update for appletrailers lua script
293 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
294 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
295 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
296 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
299 * New udev module for linux
302 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
305 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
308 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
313 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
314 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
317 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
318 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
321 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
322 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
325 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
328 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
329 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
330 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
331 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
334 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
335 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
336 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
337 - no support for Goom and SDL
338 - limited text rendering support
339 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
342 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
343 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
344 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
345 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
346 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
347 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
348 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
349 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
350 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
354 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
357 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
360 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
361 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
362 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
363 Arabic and French translation updates
366 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
367 --------------------------------
370 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
371 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
372 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
373 * Fix Dailymotion access script
374 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
375 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
378 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
379 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
382 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
383 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
384 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
387 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
390 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
391 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
394 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
395 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
396 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
397 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
398 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
399 * Fix various crashes
402 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
404 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
407 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
408 ---------------------------------
412 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
413 See 'Access:' for more info.
414 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
417 * Instantaneous pausing
418 * Frame-by-Frame playback
419 * Finer speed control
420 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
421 * Timeshift for most medias
422 * RTSP trickplay support
423 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
426 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
427 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
428 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
429 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
430 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
431 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
432 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
433 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
434 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
435 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
438 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
439 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
440 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
441 * Metadata for mod files are supported
442 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
443 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
444 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
447 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
448 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
451 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
452 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
453 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
454 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
455 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
456 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
457 * DVB scanning on linux
458 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
459 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
460 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
461 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
462 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
463 * MTP device access on Unix
464 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
465 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
468 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
469 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
470 Windows and Mac OS X.
473 * Export the playlist in HTML
474 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
475 * Better metadata handling and reading
477 Linux/Windows interface:
478 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
479 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
480 * Recently played items list
481 * Interface toolbar customizations
482 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
485 - Improvements on many dialogs
486 - New dialog for plugins listing
487 - Fixed-size mode for videos
488 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
489 * Better integration in GTK environments
492 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
493 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
494 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
495 * Additional usability improvements
498 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
499 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
500 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
501 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
502 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
505 * New Maemo port with:
506 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
507 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
510 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
513 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
514 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
515 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
516 * Support for latest iSight models
519 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
520 * Surround support for PulseAudio
523 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
524 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
525 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
526 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
527 The old image video output has been removed.
528 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
529 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
532 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
540 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
541 --------------------------------------
547 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
548 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
549 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
550 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
551 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
552 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
553 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
555 Various fixes to the following modules:
558 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
559 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
562 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
567 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
568 ---------------------------------
571 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
572 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
575 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
576 ---------------------------------
579 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
582 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
585 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
586 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
587 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
588 main controller window.
589 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
592 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
597 * Updates of other localizations
600 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
601 * Lots of small bugfixes.
602 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
603 * Telnet fixes on Windows
604 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
607 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
608 ---------------------------------
611 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
613 Bunch of small bugfixes.
616 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
617 --------------------------------
622 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
623 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
626 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
627 --------------------------------
629 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
630 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
633 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
636 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
637 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
640 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
641 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
644 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
645 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
646 * Various fixed in playlist
649 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
652 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
655 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
656 ------------------------------------
658 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
659 * Fixes several memory leaks.
662 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
663 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
664 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
667 * Stability fix for the video output.
670 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
671 --------------------------------
674 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
675 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
676 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
677 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
678 * Fixed update system bugs
679 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
682 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
683 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
684 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
685 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
686 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
687 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
688 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
689 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
690 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
691 modern Mac OS X versions
694 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
695 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
697 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
698 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
701 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
702 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
703 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
704 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
705 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
706 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
709 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
710 --------------------------------
712 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
713 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
717 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
718 --------------------------------
720 * Multiple bug fixes.
723 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
724 ---------------------------------
728 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
729 recent to work correctly
730 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
731 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
732 edit the ".hosts" file.
733 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
734 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
735 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
736 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
737 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
738 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
739 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
740 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
741 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
742 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
743 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
744 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
745 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
746 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
747 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
748 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
749 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
750 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
751 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
752 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
753 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
754 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
755 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
756 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
757 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
758 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
759 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
760 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
761 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
762 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
763 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
764 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
765 and postproc modules.
766 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
767 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
768 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
769 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
771 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
773 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
774 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
776 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
777 * Glide video output module has been removed.
783 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
785 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
786 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
789 * Vastly improved playlist support:
790 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
792 * Shoutcast TV listings
793 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
795 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
796 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
798 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
801 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
802 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
803 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
804 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
805 * JACK audio input support
806 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
807 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
808 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
809 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
810 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
811 * Experimental EyeTV access module
812 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
813 (available as a separate download).
814 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
816 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
817 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
818 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
820 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
821 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
824 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
825 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
826 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
827 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
829 * APEv1/2 tags support
830 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
831 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
833 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
834 * TiVo Series 2 support
835 * CD+G karaoke Files support
840 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
841 * Flash Screen Video support
842 * CamStudio Screen Video support
843 * DosBox Capture support
844 * Karl Morton's Video support
845 * limited atrac3 support
847 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
848 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
849 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
851 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
852 * NellyMoser ASAO support
853 * APE (Monkey audio) support
854 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
855 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
858 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
859 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
860 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
861 * AQTitle subtitles support
862 * MKV USF subtitles support
863 * HTML-based subtitles support
864 * MPSub subtitles support
865 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
866 * MPL2 subtitles support
867 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
868 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
869 * Realtext subtitle support
870 * DKS subtitle support
871 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
872 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
875 * Flash Screen Video support
876 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
878 Video outputs and filters:
879 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
880 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
881 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
882 * New puzzle video output filter
883 * Re-written motion detection video filter
884 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
886 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
887 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
888 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
889 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
890 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
891 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
892 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
893 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
894 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
895 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
896 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
897 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
898 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
899 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
901 Audio outputs and filters:
902 * Replay gain support
903 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
904 new scaletempo audio filter)
905 * New spatializer audio filter
906 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
909 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
910 * New RTP payload formats:
911 * Speex voice audio codec
912 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
913 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
914 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
915 * DCCP transport for RTP
916 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
921 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
922 end-user suitable way.
923 * Improved user interaction
924 * Improved mouse gestures
925 * Vastly improved Update checker
926 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
928 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
929 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
931 * Improved video output features
932 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
933 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
934 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
935 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
936 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
938 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
939 if libncursesw is available.
940 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
941 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
942 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
944 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
945 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
946 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
947 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
948 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
949 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
950 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
951 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
954 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
955 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
956 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
959 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
960 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
961 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
962 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
963 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
964 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
967 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
968 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
978 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
979 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
980 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
983 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
984 ----------------------------------
987 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
990 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
991 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
992 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
993 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
994 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
995 * Updated Polish translation
998 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
999 ----------------------------------
1002 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1003 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1004 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1007 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1008 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1009 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1010 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1011 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1012 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1013 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1014 to an unexpected application termination
1015 * New Serbian translation
1016 * Updated Romanian translation
1019 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1020 ----------------------------------
1023 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1024 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1025 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1026 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1027 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1028 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1029 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1030 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1033 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1034 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1035 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1036 * Fixed AAC resampling
1037 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1038 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1041 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1042 ----------------------------------
1045 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1046 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1047 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1048 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1049 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1052 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1053 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1054 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1055 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1056 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1059 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1060 ----------------------------------
1063 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1064 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1067 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1068 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1069 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1070 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1072 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1076 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1079 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1082 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1085 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1088 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1089 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1090 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1091 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1092 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1094 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1095 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1096 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1097 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1100 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1103 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1104 ----------------------------------
1107 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1108 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1109 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1111 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1112 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1114 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1115 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1118 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1120 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1121 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1122 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1123 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1124 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1125 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1126 two different movies
1127 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1128 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1129 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1132 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1135 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1136 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1137 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1138 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1141 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1142 ----------------------------------
1144 Various bugfixes, notably:
1145 * Windows Vista compatibility
1146 * Cropping in Direct3D
1147 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1148 * RSS filter string overflow
1150 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1152 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1153 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1156 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1157 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1160 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1163 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1166 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1169 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1170 ----------------------------------
1172 Various bugfixes, notably:
1173 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1174 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1175 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1176 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1177 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1178 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1181 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1182 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1185 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1187 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1188 * Diverse usability improvements
1189 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1190 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1191 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1194 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1195 ---------------------------------
1197 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1198 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1201 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1204 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1205 --------------------------------
1208 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1211 * Support for RTSP authentication
1212 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1213 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1214 * ATSC support for DVB input
1215 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1216 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1217 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1220 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1221 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1222 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1223 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1224 * Matroska WavPack support
1225 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1226 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1227 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1230 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1231 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1232 * Improved libcaca support
1236 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1237 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1239 * Systray support in skins
1241 * Support for Apple Remote control
1242 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1243 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1244 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1245 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1247 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1250 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1251 Windows 9x/ME users:
1252 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1253 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1254 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1255 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1256 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1258 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1259 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1268 * Updates to the libvlc API
1269 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1272 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1273 --------------------------------
1276 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1277 * Support for downloading updates
1281 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1282 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1283 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1284 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1286 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1287 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1288 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1291 * Cook (Real audio) support
1293 Playlist / Services discovery:
1294 * XSPF playlist support
1296 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1299 * New JACK audio output
1302 * New video filters:
1303 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1304 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1305 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1306 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1307 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1308 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1311 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1314 * System to inform the user and request information
1315 - HTTP authentication
1319 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1320 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1321 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1324 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1325 - Improved playlist handling
1326 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1328 - Embedded Video output
1329 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1330 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1331 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1332 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1333 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1335 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1336 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1339 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1342 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1343 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1344 * Growl "Now playing" support
1347 * Ability to log to syslog
1348 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1351 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1353 * A bit more automatic testing
1356 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1357 ---------------------------------
1360 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1361 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1364 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1365 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1368 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1371 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1372 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1378 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1381 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1382 --------------------------------
1385 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1389 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1390 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1391 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1394 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1395 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1396 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1397 * GnomeVFS input module
1398 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1399 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1402 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1403 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1404 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1407 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1408 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1414 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1415 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1418 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1419 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1420 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1423 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1425 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1426 - New extended controls panel
1427 - New bookmarks window
1428 - Fixed playlist sorting
1429 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1431 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1432 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1433 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1434 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1438 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1439 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1441 - Include macro to include other files
1445 * Should now work outside IE as well
1448 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1451 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1452 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1455 The following languages were added:
1459 * Simplified Chinese
1460 The following languages were re-added:
1464 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1465 --------------------------------
1468 * Rewrite of the playlist
1470 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1471 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1472 * Preferences improvements:
1473 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1474 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1476 * Core image manipulation support
1477 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1478 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1479 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1480 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1481 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1482 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1483 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1484 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1485 * Access filter architecture
1486 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1487 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1491 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1492 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1493 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1494 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1495 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1496 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1497 * Massive Matroska improvements
1498 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1500 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1501 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1502 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1503 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1504 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1506 Decoders / Encoders:
1507 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1508 * PNG decoder/encoder
1509 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1510 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1513 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1516 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1517 * Brand new SAP module
1518 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1519 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1520 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1521 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1522 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1523 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1527 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1530 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1531 * Image file video output (png)
1532 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1533 * Improvements to wall video filter
1534 * Support for font color and opacity
1540 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1541 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1542 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1546 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1547 - Improved preferences
1548 - Improvements to the wizard
1549 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1551 - Redesigned playlist
1552 - Improved preferences
1554 - Support for multiple actions
1557 - Support for the new playlist system
1559 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1562 * Screensaver disabling fix
1563 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1564 * Support for no-decoration windows
1567 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1568 * The OpenGL video output is back
1569 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1570 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1571 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1572 is not yet available in the new module
1573 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1576 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1585 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1588 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1591 The following languages were added:
1597 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1598 --------------------------------
1601 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1602 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1605 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1606 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1607 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1610 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1613 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1616 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1619 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1620 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1621 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1625 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1627 * Support of playlist group announcement
1630 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1631 --------------------------------
1634 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1635 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1636 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1637 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1638 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1639 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1642 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1643 (Stream your desktop)
1644 * Improved DVD support:
1645 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1646 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1647 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1648 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1649 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1650 (selection of titles/chapters).
1653 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1654 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1655 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1656 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1657 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1658 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1659 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1660 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1661 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1662 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1665 * G.726 audio support
1666 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1667 * MPEG-4 text support
1668 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1669 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1670 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1674 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1675 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1676 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1677 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1678 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1679 * DVB subtitles encoder
1680 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1681 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1683 * Text track muxing for mp4
1684 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1685 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1686 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1687 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1688 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1689 * Improved ASF muxer
1691 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1692 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1693 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1696 * New audio equalizer filter
1697 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1698 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1699 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1700 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1703 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1704 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1705 with support for effects.
1706 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1707 - New filters can be streamed.
1708 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1709 - Centralized scaling and blending
1711 - "time", to display current time
1712 - "marq", to display a marquee
1715 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1716 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1717 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1718 * A few skins2 improvements
1719 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1720 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1721 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1722 * Improved CORBA control module
1725 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1726 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1727 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1730 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1731 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1732 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1735 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1736 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1737 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1738 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1739 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1742 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1745 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1746 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1749 * Server/client network synchronization module
1750 * VBrick streams fully supported
1751 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1755 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1756 --------------------------------
1759 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1760 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1761 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1762 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1765 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1766 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1767 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1768 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1769 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1770 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1771 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1774 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1775 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1776 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1777 * Improved directory access module.
1778 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1779 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1780 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1781 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1782 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1785 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1786 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1787 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1790 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1791 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1792 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1795 * Improved session announcement system.
1796 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1797 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1798 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1799 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1800 * Improved transrater.
1801 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1802 * New configuration system.
1803 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1806 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1807 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1808 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1809 * Supports scheduling.
1810 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1811 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1814 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1815 - Ability to embed video output.
1816 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1817 - Lots of improvements.
1818 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1819 - New design and set of icons.
1820 - Ability to embed video output.
1821 - Support for hotkeys.
1822 - Support for bookmarks.
1824 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1825 - Better hotkeys handling.
1828 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1829 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1830 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1831 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1834 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1835 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1836 * Improved Windows installer.
1842 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1843 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1846 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1847 ---------------------------------
1850 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1851 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1854 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1855 --------------------------------
1858 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1859 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1862 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1863 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1864 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1865 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1868 * Internal improvments
1869 * Improved import/export
1872 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1874 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1875 small and strange formats.
1877 * New MOD audio demux.
1878 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1879 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1880 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1881 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1884 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1885 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1886 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1892 * New opengl video output plugin.
1895 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1896 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1899 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1900 --------------------------------
1903 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1904 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1905 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1906 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1907 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1908 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1909 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1910 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1913 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1918 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1919 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1920 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1921 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1922 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1923 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1924 * Better Icecast support.
1925 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1926 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1929 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1930 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1931 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1932 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1933 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1934 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1935 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1938 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1939 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1940 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1941 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1942 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1943 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1944 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1945 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1946 * Preliminary RTP support.
1947 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1952 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1953 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1955 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1956 - Improvements and help in preferences
1957 - New streaming wizard
1958 - Revised Disc Open menu
1960 - Improvements of the standard pages
1961 - Support for new commands
1962 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1965 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1966 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1969 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1970 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1971 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1972 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1973 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1974 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1975 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1976 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1977 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1980 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1982 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1983 * Support for Panther.
1984 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1985 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1988 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1989 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1990 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1991 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1992 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1993 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1994 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1995 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1998 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1999 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2000 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2003 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2006 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2007 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2008 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2009 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2012 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2013 --------------------------------
2016 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2019 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2020 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2023 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2024 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2027 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2030 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2031 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2034 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2037 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2040 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2041 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2045 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2046 --------------------------------
2049 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2050 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2054 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2055 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2056 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2058 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2059 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2062 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2065 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2068 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2069 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2073 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2074 --------------------------------
2077 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2078 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2082 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2083 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2084 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2085 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2086 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2089 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2090 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2091 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2094 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2095 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2096 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2099 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2100 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2101 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2102 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2103 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2106 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2107 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2108 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2111 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2114 * Improved build system.
2115 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2116 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2117 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2118 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2121 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2122 --------------------------------
2125 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2128 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2129 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2130 * Video 4 Linux support
2131 * CD Digital Audio support
2132 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2135 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2136 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2137 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2138 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2141 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2142 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2143 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2144 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2145 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2146 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2147 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2150 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2151 * New HTTP remote control interface
2154 * 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.
2155 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2156 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2157 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2160 * New reset option for the preferences
2161 * You can set your language in the prefences
2162 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2163 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2164 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2165 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2168 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2169 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2170 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2173 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2174 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2175 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2176 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2177 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2178 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2179 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2180 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2181 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2182 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2185 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2186 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2187 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2188 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2189 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2190 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2191 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2194 * Interface localization
2195 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2196 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2197 * New full-featured Preferences window
2200 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2201 --------------------------------
2204 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2205 * support for skins at the interface level
2206 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2207 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2208 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2209 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2210 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2213 * fixed HTTP redirects
2214 * support for opening an entire directory
2215 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2216 * new video4linux access plug-in
2217 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2220 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2221 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2222 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2225 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2226 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2227 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2228 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2229 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2230 * new codec for raw I420 video
2231 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2234 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2235 (although it still misses some important features)
2236 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2239 * new HTTP output support
2240 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2241 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2244 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2247 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2250 * reorderable playlist
2251 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2252 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2253 * support for mono audio output devices
2254 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2255 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2256 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2257 * the messages window remembers more lines
2258 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2259 * http and ogg stream output options
2260 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2263 * new skinnable interface
2264 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2266 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2267 * support for FLAC audio format
2268 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2270 * network tab in the interface
2271 * "apply" handling in preferences
2274 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2275 ---------------------------------
2278 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2279 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2280 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2281 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2283 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2284 * DTS S/PDIF support
2287 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2288 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2289 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2290 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2293 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2294 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2297 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2300 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2303 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2305 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2306 * rc interface is now fully useable
2307 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2310 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2311 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2312 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2313 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2314 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2316 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2317 * support for mouse gestures
2318 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2321 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2322 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2325 * improved ID3 tag detection
2326 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2327 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2328 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2330 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2333 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2334 ---------------------------------
2337 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2338 English was set as the preferred language
2341 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2342 --------------------------------
2345 * new mouse gesture interface
2346 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2350 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2351 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2352 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2355 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2356 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2360 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2363 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2364 without the user consent
2367 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2369 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2370 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2371 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2374 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2375 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2376 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2377 * playlist enhancements
2378 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2379 * new step forward/step backward commands
2380 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2381 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2382 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2385 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2386 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2387 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2390 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2391 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2394 * native video output is working again
2395 * only commandline interface support
2396 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2399 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2400 --------------------------------
2403 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2404 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2405 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2406 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2407 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2408 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2409 and A/52 streams are supported)
2410 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2415 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2416 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2417 * VCD entry points support
2418 * VCD image file support
2421 * support for *.asf format
2422 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2423 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2424 * support for ogg encapsulation
2425 * support for raw DV format
2426 * support for *.wav format
2427 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2430 Stream discovery & playlists:
2431 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2432 * support for .m3u file format
2433 * support for .asx file format
2434 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2437 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2438 (only available with the .avi demux)
2439 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2440 * support for raw PCM data
2441 * support for Cinepak video codec
2442 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2443 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2444 * support for Xvid codec
2445 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2446 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2447 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2449 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2451 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2454 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2457 * new WxWindows interface
2458 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2459 device and the channels configuration
2460 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2461 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2462 format that VLC can play
2463 * new swedish translation
2464 * enhancements of the playlist window
2465 * new messages window to see debug info
2466 * fixed a few crashes
2469 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2470 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2471 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2472 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working