3 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4 This version is in development and not yet released.
5 --------------------------------
8 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
9 * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
10 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
11 * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
12 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
14 * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
17 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
19 * Improved DVD support:
20 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
21 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
22 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
23 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
24 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
25 (selection of titles/chapters).
28 * Support iTunes Music Store previews
29 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
30 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
31 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
32 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
33 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
34 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
35 * Improved Ogg demuxer
39 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
41 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
42 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
43 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
47 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
48 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
49 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
50 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
51 * DVB subtitles encoder
52 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
53 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
55 * Text track muxing for mp4
56 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
57 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
58 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
59 * Experimental WAV muxer
62 * H.263 RTP streaming support
63 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
64 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
67 * New audio equalizer filter
68 * Very trivial volume normalizer
71 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
72 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
73 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
74 * A few skins2 improvements
75 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
76 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
77 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
78 * Improved CORBA control module
81 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
82 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
83 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
86 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
87 * Experimental SVG rendering module
90 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
91 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
92 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
93 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
94 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
97 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
98 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
101 * Roku HD1000 Video output
102 * Server/client network synchronization module
103 * VBrick streams fully supported
104 * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
105 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
106 * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
107 * a Time filter that displays the current time over the video
109 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
110 --------------------------------
113 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
114 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
115 * Improved HTTP daemon.
116 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
119 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
120 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
121 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
122 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
123 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
124 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
125 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
128 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
129 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
130 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
131 * Improved directory access module.
132 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
133 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
134 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
135 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
136 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
139 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
140 * mmsh streaming fixes.
141 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
144 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
145 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
146 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
149 * Improved session announcement system.
150 * Minimize threads usage by default.
151 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
152 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
153 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
154 * Improved transrater.
155 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
156 * New configuration system.
157 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
160 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
161 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
162 * Supports live streams and VoD.
163 * Supports scheduling.
164 * Telnet interface for vlm.
165 * HTTP interface for vlm.
168 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
169 - Ability to embed video output.
170 - Support for bitmap fonts.
171 - Lots of improvements.
172 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
173 - New design and set of icons.
174 - Ability to embed video output.
175 - Support for hotkeys.
176 - Support for bookmarks.
178 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
179 - Better hotkeys handling.
182 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
183 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
184 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
185 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
188 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
189 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
190 * Improved Windows installer.
196 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
197 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
199 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
200 ---------------------------------
203 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
204 * Playing MOD files is working now.
207 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
208 ---------------------------------
211 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
212 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
215 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
216 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
217 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
218 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
221 * Internal improvments
222 * Improved import/export
225 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
227 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
228 small and strange formats.
230 * New MOD audio demux.
231 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
232 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
233 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
234 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
237 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
238 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
239 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
245 * New opengl video output plugin.
248 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
249 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
251 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
252 ---------------------------------
255 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
256 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
257 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
258 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
259 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
260 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
261 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
262 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
265 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
270 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
271 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
272 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
273 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
274 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
275 * Reworked DVB tuning.
276 * Better Icecast support.
277 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
278 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
281 * Support for Theora video encoding.
282 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
283 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
284 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
285 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
286 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
287 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
290 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
291 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
292 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
293 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
294 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
295 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
296 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
297 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
298 * Preliminary RTP support.
299 * Fixes to SAP announces.
304 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
305 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
307 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
308 - Improvements and help in preferences
309 - New streaming wizard
310 - Revised Disc Open menu
312 - Improvements of the standard pages
313 - Support for new commands
314 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
317 * Many fixes to the SAP module
318 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
321 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
322 * Text subtitles autodetection.
323 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
324 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
325 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
326 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
327 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
328 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
329 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
332 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
334 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
335 * Support for Panther.
336 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
337 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
340 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
341 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
342 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
343 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
344 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
345 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
346 * Multimonitor support (untested).
347 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
350 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
351 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
352 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
355 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
358 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
359 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
360 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
361 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
363 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
364 ---------------------------------
367 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
370 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
371 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
374 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
375 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
378 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
381 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
382 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
385 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
388 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
391 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
392 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
395 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
396 ---------------------------------
399 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
400 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
404 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
405 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
406 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
408 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
409 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
412 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
415 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
418 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
419 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
422 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
423 ---------------------------------
426 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
427 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
431 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
432 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
433 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
434 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
435 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
438 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
439 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
440 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
443 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
444 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
445 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
448 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
449 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
450 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
451 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
452 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
455 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
456 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
457 * A new CORBA control plugin.
460 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
463 * Improved build system.
464 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
465 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
466 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
467 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
470 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
471 ---------------------------------
474 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
477 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
478 * Fixed large file support on Windows
479 * Video 4 Linux support
480 * CD Digital Audio support
481 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
484 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
485 * Support for OpenDML avi files
486 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
487 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
490 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
491 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
492 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
493 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
494 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
495 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
496 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
499 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
500 * New HTTP remote control interface
503 * 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.
504 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
505 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
506 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
509 * New reset option for the preferences
510 * You can set your language in the prefences
511 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
512 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
513 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
514 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
517 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
518 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
519 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
522 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
523 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
524 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
525 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
526 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
527 * New icons by Davor Orel.
528 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
529 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
530 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
531 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
534 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
535 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
536 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
537 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
538 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
539 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
540 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
543 * Interface localization
544 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
545 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
546 * New full-featured Preferences window
548 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
549 ---------------------------------
552 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
553 * support for skins at the interface level
554 * new OSD module using Freetype2
555 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
556 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
557 input level before dropping out of date frames.
558 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
561 * fixed HTTP redirects
562 * support for opening an entire directory
563 * EOF should be detected more reliably
564 * new video4linux access plug-in
565 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
568 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
569 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
570 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
573 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
574 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
575 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
576 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
577 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
578 * new codec for raw I420 video
579 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
582 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
583 (although it still misses some important features)
584 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
587 * new HTTP output support
588 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
589 * fixed AV synchronization issues
592 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
595 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
598 * reorderable playlist
599 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
600 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
601 * support for mono audio output devices
602 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
603 * fixed several cosmetic issues
604 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
605 * the messages window remembers more lines
606 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
607 * http and ogg stream output options
608 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
611 * new skinnable interface
612 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
614 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
615 * support for FLAC audio format
616 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
618 * network tab in the interface
619 * "apply" handling in preferences
622 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
623 ---------------------------------
626 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
627 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
628 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
629 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
631 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
635 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
636 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
637 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
638 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
641 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
642 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
645 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
648 * fixed the GNU-pth support
651 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
653 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
654 * rc interface is now fully useable
655 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
658 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
659 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
660 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
661 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
662 * VLC now uses the default audio device
664 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
665 * support for mouse gestures
666 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
669 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
670 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
673 * improved ID3 tag detection
674 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
675 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
676 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
678 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
681 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
682 ---------------------------------
685 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
686 English was set as the preferred language
689 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
690 --------------------------------
693 * new mouse gesture interface
694 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
698 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
699 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
700 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
703 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
704 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
708 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
711 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
712 without the user consent
715 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
717 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
718 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
719 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
722 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
723 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
724 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
725 * playlist enhancements
726 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
727 * new step forward/step backward commands
728 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
729 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
730 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
733 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
734 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
735 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
738 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
739 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
742 * native video output is working again
743 * only commandline interface support
744 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
747 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
748 --------------------------------
751 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
752 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
753 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
754 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
755 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
756 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
757 and A/52 streams are supported)
758 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
763 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
764 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
765 * VCD entry points support
766 * VCD image file support
769 * support for *.asf format
770 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
771 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
772 * support for ogg encapsulation
773 * support for raw DV format
774 * support for *.wav format
775 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
778 Stream discovery & playlists:
779 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
780 * support for .m3u file format
781 * support for .asx file format
782 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
785 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
786 (only available with the .avi demux)
787 * support for ADPCM audio codec
788 * support for raw PCM data
789 * support for Cinepak video codec
790 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
791 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
792 * support for Xvid codec
793 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
794 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
795 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
797 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
799 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
802 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
805 * new WxWindows interface
806 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
807 device and the channels configuration
808 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
809 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
810 format that VLC can play
811 * new swedish translation
812 * enhancements of the playlist window
813 * new messages window to see debug info
814 * fixed a few crashes
817 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
818 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
819 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
820 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working