1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
43 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
46 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
49 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
52 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
53 * Wayland shell surface window provider
54 * Wayland shared memory video output
55 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
56 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
57 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
60 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
61 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
64 * Chromecast output module
65 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
68 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
71 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
72 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
76 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
79 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
80 * Port to Yosemite X.10
83 * Batch convert support
86 * Support key accelerators
89 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
90 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
91 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
92 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
93 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
94 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
95 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
96 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
97 identifier (if there is one available)
100 * Support for the SystemD Journal
101 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
102 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
103 * New Android module for logging
106 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
107 --------------------------------
110 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
111 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
114 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
115 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
116 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
117 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
120 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
121 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
122 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
123 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
125 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
126 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
129 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
130 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
131 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
132 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
133 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
134 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
135 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
136 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
137 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
138 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
139 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
140 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
141 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
142 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
143 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
144 * New jpeg image decoder
145 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
146 * New SVG image decoder
147 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
148 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
149 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
152 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
153 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
154 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
155 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
156 * New png image encoder using libpng
159 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
160 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
161 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
162 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
163 synchronization and tracks exclusion
164 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
165 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
166 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
167 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
168 * Support Opus in MKV
170 * Basic support for WebVTT
171 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
172 * Support HDPR TS files
173 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
174 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
175 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
176 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
177 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
178 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
179 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
180 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
181 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
182 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
183 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
184 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
187 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
188 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
189 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
190 * New Android native window provider module
191 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
192 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
193 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
196 * New Oldmovie effect filter
197 * New VHS effect filter
198 * New Freeze effect filter
199 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
200 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
201 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
204 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
205 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
206 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
207 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
208 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
209 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
212 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
213 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
215 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
218 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
219 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
220 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
221 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
222 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
223 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
224 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
225 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
226 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
228 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
229 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
230 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
233 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
234 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
237 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
238 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
241 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
242 * Add record button in Qt menus
243 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
244 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
245 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
248 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
249 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
250 * Fixes for advanced preferences
251 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
252 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
253 * Option to increase playlist font size
254 * Improved crash log reporting
257 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
258 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
259 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
262 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
265 * iOS video output: use ios2
266 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
267 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
270 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
271 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
272 * Update of all translations:
273 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
274 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
275 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
276 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
277 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
278 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
279 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
282 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
283 --------------------------------
286 * Fix compilation on OS/2
289 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
291 Mac OS X audio output:
292 * Fix channel ordering
293 * Increase the buffersize
296 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
297 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
298 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
301 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
304 * Correctly support video-on-top
305 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
306 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
309 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
312 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
313 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
316 * Update British English
319 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
320 --------------------------------
323 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
326 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
329 * Fix DVD playback regression
330 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
331 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
334 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
335 --------------------------------
338 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
339 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
342 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
343 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
344 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
347 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
348 by updating codec libraries
349 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
350 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
351 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
354 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
355 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
356 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
357 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
360 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
361 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
364 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
365 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
366 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
367 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
368 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
371 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
372 * Fix record file names
375 * Fix minimal size possible on start
376 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
377 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
378 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
379 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
382 * Fix album art display on Windows
385 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
386 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
387 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
388 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
389 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
390 and Simplified Chinese translations
391 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
394 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
395 --------------------------------
398 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
399 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
400 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
401 audio devices on OS X
402 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
403 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
406 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
407 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
410 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
411 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
414 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
417 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
418 * Improve A-B loop control
419 * Fix album art update when changing media
422 * Add a language option in the interface
423 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
424 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
425 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
426 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
427 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
428 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
429 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
432 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
435 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
436 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
437 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
438 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
441 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
442 --------------------------------
445 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
447 * Fix some subtitles track selection
450 * VP9 support in WebM
451 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
452 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
455 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
456 * Support Speex in ogg files
457 * Fix some .mov playlists support
458 * Support Alac in mkv
459 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
460 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
463 * Fix DVB options parsing
464 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
465 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
468 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
469 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
472 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
473 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
476 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
477 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
478 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
479 * Fix play after drag'n drop
480 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
483 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
484 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
487 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
488 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
491 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
492 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
493 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
494 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
495 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
496 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
497 * Improves interface resizings
500 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
501 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
502 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
503 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
504 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
508 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
509 --------------------------------
512 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
513 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
514 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
515 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
516 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
518 3rd party libraries (contrib):
519 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
522 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
523 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
524 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
525 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
526 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
529 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
530 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
534 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
535 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
536 * Support for Ulead DV audio
537 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
538 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
539 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
540 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
541 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
542 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
543 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
544 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
545 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
546 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
549 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
550 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
551 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
554 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
555 remove support for previous OS X releases
556 * Major improvements in DASH support
557 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
558 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
559 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
560 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
561 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
562 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
563 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
564 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
565 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
566 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
567 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
570 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
571 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
572 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
573 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
574 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
575 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
576 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
577 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
578 * Support for more MJPEG streams
579 * Add support for liveleak streams
580 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
581 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
582 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
585 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
586 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
587 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
588 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
589 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
590 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
591 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
592 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
593 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
594 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
595 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
598 * New remapping channel filter
599 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
600 * New VSXu visualization plugin
601 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
602 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
603 * New gain audio filter
606 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
607 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
608 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
609 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
610 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
611 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
612 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
613 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
614 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
617 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
618 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
619 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
620 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
621 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
622 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
623 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
626 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
627 * Options support for AVIO output module
628 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
629 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
630 * Livehttp stream encryption support
631 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
632 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
635 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
638 * configurable password for the HTTP server
639 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
640 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
641 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
642 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
643 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
644 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
645 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
649 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
652 * Add support for multiple video outputs
653 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
655 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
656 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
657 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
658 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
659 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
660 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
661 VLC's internal volume level
662 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
664 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
665 selection and to manage the list of presets
666 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
667 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
668 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
669 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
670 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
671 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
672 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
673 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
674 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
675 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
677 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
678 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
679 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
680 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
681 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
682 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
683 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
684 3rd party applications
685 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
686 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
687 (system-wide settings)
688 * Add support for the Video Title option
689 * Add support for the Boss Key
690 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
691 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
694 * Partial support for Qt5.0
695 * Menus modifications and improvements
696 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
697 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
698 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
699 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
700 * EPG display fixes and improvements
701 * Add SD pixmap sources
702 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
703 * Display playlist total duration
704 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
705 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
706 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
711 * Extend sliders, offsets options
712 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
713 * Numerous fixes and improvements
714 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
717 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
718 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
719 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
720 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
721 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
722 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
723 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
724 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
725 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
726 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
729 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
730 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
731 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
732 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
733 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
734 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
736 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
737 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
738 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
739 * Broken crop video filter
741 * OSD parser and menu
742 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
743 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
744 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
745 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
749 * Update of all translations
752 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
753 --------------------------------
756 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
757 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
760 * Fix modplug security issues
763 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
764 --------------------------------
768 * Fix crash in QTsound
769 * Fix screen mouse file location
770 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
773 * Fix use after free in sgimb
774 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
777 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
780 * Fix interface crashes
781 * Fix autostart playback option
782 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
785 * update Welsh translation
786 * New Kannada translation
789 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
790 --------------------------------
793 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
794 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
798 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
801 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
804 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
807 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
811 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
814 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
817 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
818 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
819 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
822 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
823 --------------------------------
826 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
829 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
832 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
833 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
834 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
835 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
836 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
837 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
840 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
841 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
842 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
843 * 3rd party codecs updates
846 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
847 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
848 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
849 in the advanced preferences panel
850 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
851 * Fix crash within the video output code
852 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
853 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
854 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
855 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
857 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
860 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
863 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
864 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
867 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
870 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
871 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
872 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
873 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
874 Dutch, Danish, translations
875 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
878 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
879 --------------------------------
882 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
885 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
886 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
887 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
890 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
891 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
892 * Fix koreus lua parser
893 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
894 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
895 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
896 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
899 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
900 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
903 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
906 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
907 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
908 * Fix Time counter UI look
909 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
912 * Fix https streaming
915 * Fix audio and video track selection:
916 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
917 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
920 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
921 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
922 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
923 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
924 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
927 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
932 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
933 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
934 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
935 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
936 during playback on Mac OS X
939 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
940 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
941 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
944 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
945 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
946 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
947 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
948 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
951 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
952 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
953 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
954 * Support Youtube live streams
957 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
960 * Fix media info dialog update
961 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
962 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
963 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
964 * Fix album art display at start
967 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
968 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
969 * Fix menus display and behavior
970 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
971 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
972 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
973 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
974 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
975 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
976 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
979 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
980 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
981 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
982 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
983 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
984 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
985 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
986 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
987 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
990 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
991 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
992 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
993 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
994 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
997 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
998 --------------------------------
1001 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1004 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1005 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1008 * Add GateKeeper support
1009 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1010 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1011 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1014 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1017 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1018 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1019 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1020 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1021 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1024 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1025 --------------------------------
1028 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1029 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1030 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1031 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1032 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1033 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1034 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1035 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1036 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1037 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1038 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1042 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1043 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1044 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1045 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1046 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1047 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1048 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1049 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1050 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1051 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1052 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1053 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1056 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1057 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1059 * Fix MP3 free format support
1062 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1063 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1064 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1065 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1066 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1069 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1070 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1072 Audio filters and output:
1073 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1074 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1075 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1076 * Do not apply volume in file output
1077 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1078 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1081 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1082 the persistant media library
1083 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1084 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1085 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1086 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1087 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1088 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1089 press on the Play/Pause button
1090 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1091 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1092 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1093 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1094 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1095 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1096 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1097 Synchronization panel
1098 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1099 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1100 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1101 * Fix crashes on exit
1102 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1104 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1105 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1106 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1107 automatically reset on the first launch.
1108 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1109 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1110 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1113 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1114 * Fixes for icecast SD
1117 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1118 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1119 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1120 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1121 * Fix tags and file names display
1122 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1125 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1126 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1129 * Fix display of some buttons
1130 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1131 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1134 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1135 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1136 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1139 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1140 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1141 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1142 Thai translations update
1143 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1146 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1151 * fix the samba module compilation
1152 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1153 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1154 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1155 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1158 * Support for MXPEG files
1159 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1160 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1163 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1164 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1165 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1168 * Fix ogm header creation
1171 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1172 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1175 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1176 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1177 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1178 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1181 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1184 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1185 * allow to hide the sidebar
1186 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1187 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1188 * noticebly faster launch time
1189 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1190 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1191 * improve track synchronization panel
1192 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1193 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1196 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1197 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1198 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1199 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1202 * fix for menus display
1203 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1204 * documentation update
1207 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1208 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1211 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1212 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1213 * Update Jamendo selections
1217 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1218 * fix a crash on VLM close
1221 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1222 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1223 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1224 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1227 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1230 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1231 ---------------------------------
1234 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1235 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1236 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1237 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1238 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1239 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1240 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1241 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1242 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1243 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1244 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1245 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1246 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1247 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1248 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1249 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1250 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1251 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1252 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1253 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1254 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1255 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1256 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1257 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1258 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1259 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1261 Important changes for packagers:
1262 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1263 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1264 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1265 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1266 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1267 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1268 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1269 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1270 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1271 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1274 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1275 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1276 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1277 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1278 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1279 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1280 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1283 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1284 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1285 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1286 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1287 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1288 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1289 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1290 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1291 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1292 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1293 * PulseAudio audio input support
1294 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1295 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1296 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1297 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1298 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1299 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1300 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1301 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1304 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1305 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1306 are notably concerned.
1307 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1308 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1309 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1310 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1311 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1312 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1313 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1314 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1315 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1316 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1317 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1318 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1319 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1320 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1321 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1324 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1325 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1326 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1327 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1328 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1329 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1330 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1331 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1332 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1333 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1334 * Improved support of tracker files
1335 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1338 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1339 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1340 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1341 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1342 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1343 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1344 and important cleanups and optimisations
1345 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1346 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1347 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1348 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1349 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1350 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1351 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1352 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1353 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1354 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1355 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1356 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1357 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1358 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1359 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1360 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1361 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1362 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1363 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1364 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1365 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1368 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1369 * New video output for iOS platform
1370 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1371 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1372 * Various vmem improvements
1373 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1374 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1375 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1376 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1377 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1378 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1380 Audio Output and Filters:
1381 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1382 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1383 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1384 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1385 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1386 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1387 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1388 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1389 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1390 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1393 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1394 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1395 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1396 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1397 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1398 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1399 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1400 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1401 * New anti-flickering filter
1402 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1403 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1404 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1405 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1406 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1407 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1408 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1411 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1412 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1413 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1414 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1415 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1416 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1417 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1418 * Major rework of VoD support
1419 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1420 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1421 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1422 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1423 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1424 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1425 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1426 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1427 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1428 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1431 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1432 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1435 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1436 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1437 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1438 list of available audio and video filters
1439 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1440 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1441 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1444 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1445 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1446 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1447 * id3tag: use taglib
1448 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1449 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1450 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1451 * removal of the noise filter
1452 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1453 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1454 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1455 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1458 * Update of translations for most languages.
1459 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1462 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1463 ----------------------------------
1466 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1467 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1470 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1471 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1474 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1475 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1476 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1479 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1482 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1483 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1486 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1489 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1490 ----------------------------------
1493 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1494 including support for OS X Lion
1495 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1496 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1499 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1502 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1503 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1504 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1507 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1510 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1511 ----------------------------------
1514 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1515 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1518 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1519 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1520 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1521 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1522 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1524 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1525 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1526 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1528 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1529 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1532 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1535 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1538 * Fix quitting on Linux
1539 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1543 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1546 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1549 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1550 ---------------------------------
1552 Windows and Mac OS X:
1553 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1556 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1557 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1560 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1563 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1566 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1568 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1569 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1571 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1572 * RTP output and XML export
1573 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1577 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1578 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1579 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1580 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1583 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1584 --------------------------------
1586 Windows and Mac OS X:
1587 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1590 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1593 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1594 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1595 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1596 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1597 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1598 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1601 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1602 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1606 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1607 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1608 * New Luganda Translation
1611 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1612 --------------------------------
1615 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1618 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1619 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1620 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1621 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1624 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1626 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1627 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1628 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1629 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1630 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1631 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1632 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1633 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1635 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1636 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1637 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1638 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1639 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1640 * Configure and build system improvements
1641 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1644 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1645 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1646 * New icelandic translation
1649 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1650 --------------------------------
1653 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1654 #234484 and #260719.
1657 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1658 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1659 and stability reasons
1662 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1666 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1669 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1670 ----------------------------------
1673 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1676 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1677 ---------------------------------
1680 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1681 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1682 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1683 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1686 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1689 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1690 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1691 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1692 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1695 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1696 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1697 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1699 Subtitles and renderer:
1700 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1701 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1702 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1703 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1704 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1707 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1708 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1709 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1710 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1713 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1714 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1716 Miscellaneous fixes:
1717 * KDE device solid actions
1719 * Transcode integer overflow
1720 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1721 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1724 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1725 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1726 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1729 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1730 ----------------------------------
1733 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1737 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1740 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1743 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1744 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1745 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1746 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1749 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1753 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1756 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1759 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1760 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1762 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1766 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1767 * Miscellaneous fixes
1770 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1771 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1772 French and Ukrainian
1773 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1774 * New Asturian translation
1777 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1778 ----------------------------------
1781 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1783 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1786 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1789 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1790 * Various fixes for Windows
1793 * New Armenian translation
1794 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1795 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1798 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1799 --------------------------------
1802 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1803 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1804 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1807 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1808 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1811 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1812 --------------------------------
1814 Access and demuxers:
1815 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1816 * fix for podcasts parsing
1817 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1820 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1821 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1824 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1825 * fix m3u playlists exports
1828 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1831 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1834 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1837 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1840 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1843 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1844 --------------------------------
1847 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1848 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1851 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1852 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1855 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1856 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1857 * fix console output encoding
1859 Interface and extensions:
1860 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1861 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1864 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1865 --------------------------------
1868 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1869 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1870 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1871 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1872 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1873 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1874 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1875 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1876 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1877 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1878 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1879 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1880 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1881 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1882 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1883 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1887 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1888 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1889 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1890 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1891 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1894 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1897 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1898 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1899 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1903 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1906 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1907 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1908 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1911 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1912 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1913 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1914 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1917 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1918 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1921 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1922 --------------------------------
1924 Important changes for users:
1925 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1926 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1928 Important changes for packagers:
1929 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1930 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1931 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1932 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1933 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1935 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1937 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1938 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1939 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1940 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1941 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1944 * Support for the sftp protocol
1945 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1946 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1947 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1948 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1949 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1952 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1953 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1954 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1956 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1957 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1958 * Invmem module improvements
1959 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1960 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1961 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1962 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1963 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1964 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1965 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1966 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1967 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1968 * Support for VP8 codec
1969 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1972 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1973 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1974 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1975 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1976 * Various EGP improvements
1977 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1978 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1981 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1982 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1983 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1984 * Podcast images are now displayed
1987 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1988 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1989 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1990 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1991 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1992 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1993 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1994 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1995 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1996 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1997 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2000 * New content extensions lua framework
2003 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2004 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2005 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2006 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2007 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2008 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2009 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2012 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2013 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2014 * Service discovery based on libudev
2015 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2018 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2019 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2020 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2021 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2022 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2023 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2024 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2027 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2028 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2029 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2032 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2034 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2035 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2038 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2041 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2042 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2043 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2044 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2045 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2046 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2047 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2050 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2051 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2054 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2055 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2056 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2060 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2061 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2062 * Improved Solaris port
2065 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2066 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2069 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2070 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2071 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2072 * transrate: broken since too long
2073 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2074 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2075 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2076 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2077 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2078 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2079 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2080 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2081 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2082 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2083 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2084 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2085 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2086 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2089 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2090 --------------------------------
2093 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2095 Decoders/Packetizers:
2096 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2099 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2100 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2101 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2102 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2103 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2106 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2107 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2110 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2111 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2114 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2115 and Walloon translations updated
2116 * Sinhala translation started
2119 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2120 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2123 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2124 --------------------------------
2127 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2128 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2131 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2134 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2135 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2138 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2139 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2140 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2141 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2144 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2145 --------------------------------
2148 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2149 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2152 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2153 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2156 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2157 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2160 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2163 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2164 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2167 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2168 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2171 * New Walloon translation
2172 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2175 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2176 --------------------------------
2179 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2180 regressions in most popular drivers
2181 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2184 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2185 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2186 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2189 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2190 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2193 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2194 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2195 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2196 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2197 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2200 * New udev module for linux
2203 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2206 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2209 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2210 --------------------------------
2213 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2214 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2215 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2218 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2219 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2222 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2223 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2226 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2229 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2230 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2231 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2232 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2235 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2236 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2237 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2238 - no support for Goom and SDL
2239 - limited text rendering support
2240 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2243 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2244 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2245 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2246 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2247 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2248 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2249 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2250 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2251 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2255 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2258 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2261 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2262 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2263 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2264 Arabic and French translation updates
2267 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2268 --------------------------------
2271 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2272 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2273 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2274 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2275 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2276 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2279 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2280 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2281 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2284 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2285 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2286 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2289 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2292 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2293 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2296 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2297 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2298 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2299 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2300 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2301 * Fix various crashes
2304 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2306 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2310 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2311 ---------------------------------
2315 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2316 See 'Access:' for more info.
2317 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2320 * Instantaneous pausing
2321 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2322 * Finer speed control
2323 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2324 * Timeshift for most medias
2325 * RTSP trickplay support
2326 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2329 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2330 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2331 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2332 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2333 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2334 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2335 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2336 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2337 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2338 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2341 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2342 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2343 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2344 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2345 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2346 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2347 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2350 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2351 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2354 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2355 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2356 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2357 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2358 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2359 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2360 * DVB scanning on linux
2361 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2362 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2363 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2364 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2365 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2366 * MTP device access on Unix
2367 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2368 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2371 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2372 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2373 Windows and Mac OS X.
2376 * Export the playlist in HTML
2377 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2378 * Better metadata handling and reading
2380 Linux/Windows interface:
2381 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2382 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2383 * Recently played items list
2384 * Interface toolbar customizations
2385 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2386 - More menus actions
2387 - Finer speed slider
2388 - Improvements on many dialogs
2389 - New dialog for plugins listing
2390 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2391 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2392 * Better integration in GTK environments
2395 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2396 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2397 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2398 * Additional usability improvements
2401 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2402 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2403 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2404 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2405 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2408 * New Maemo port with:
2409 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2410 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2413 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2416 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2417 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2418 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2419 * Support for latest iSight models
2422 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2423 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2426 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2427 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2428 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2429 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2430 The old image video output has been removed.
2431 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2432 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2435 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2443 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2444 --------------------------------------
2450 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2451 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2452 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2453 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2454 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2455 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2456 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2458 Various fixes to the following modules:
2461 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2462 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2463 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2465 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2470 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2471 ---------------------------------
2474 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2475 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2478 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2479 ---------------------------------
2482 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2485 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2488 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2489 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2490 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2491 main controller window.
2492 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2495 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2500 * Updates of other localizations
2503 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2504 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2505 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2506 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2507 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2510 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2511 ---------------------------------
2514 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2516 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2519 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2520 --------------------------------
2525 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2526 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2529 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2530 --------------------------------
2532 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2533 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2536 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2539 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2540 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2543 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2544 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2547 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2548 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2549 * Various fixed in playlist
2552 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2555 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2558 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2559 ------------------------------------
2561 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2562 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2565 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2566 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2567 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2570 * Stability fix for the video output.
2573 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2574 --------------------------------
2577 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2578 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2579 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2580 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2581 * Fixed update system bugs
2582 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2585 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2586 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2587 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2588 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2589 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2590 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2591 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2592 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2593 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2594 modern Mac OS X versions
2597 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2598 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2600 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2601 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2604 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2605 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2606 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2607 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2608 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2609 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2612 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2613 --------------------------------
2615 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2616 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2617 * Multiple bugfixes.
2620 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2621 --------------------------------
2623 * Multiple bug fixes.
2626 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2627 ---------------------------------
2631 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2632 recent to work correctly
2633 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2634 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2635 edit the ".hosts" file.
2636 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2637 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2638 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2639 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2640 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2641 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2642 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2643 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2644 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2645 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2646 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2647 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2648 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2649 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2650 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2651 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2652 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2653 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2654 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2655 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2656 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2657 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2658 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2659 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2660 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2661 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2662 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2663 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2664 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2665 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2666 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2667 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2668 and postproc modules.
2669 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2670 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2671 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2672 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2674 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2675 filter. For example:
2676 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2677 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2679 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2680 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2686 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2688 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2689 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2692 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2693 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2695 * Shoutcast TV listings
2696 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2698 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2699 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2701 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2704 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2705 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2706 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2707 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2708 * JACK audio input support
2709 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2710 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2711 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2712 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2713 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2714 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2715 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2716 (available as a separate download).
2717 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2718 * RTMP input support
2719 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2720 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2721 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2723 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2724 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2727 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2728 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2729 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2730 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2732 * APEv1/2 tags support
2733 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2734 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2736 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2737 * TiVo Series 2 support
2738 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2743 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2744 * Flash Screen Video support
2745 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2746 * DosBox Capture support
2747 * Karl Morton's Video support
2748 * limited atrac3 support
2750 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2751 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2752 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2753 * H.264 PAFF support
2754 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2755 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2756 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2757 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2758 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2761 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2762 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2763 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2764 * AQTitle subtitles support
2765 * MKV USF subtitles support
2766 * HTML-based subtitles support
2767 * MPSub subtitles support
2768 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2769 * MPL2 subtitles support
2770 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2771 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2772 * Realtext subtitle support
2773 * DKS subtitle support
2774 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2775 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2778 * Flash Screen Video support
2779 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2781 Video outputs and filters:
2782 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2783 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2784 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2785 * New puzzle video output filter
2786 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2787 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2789 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2790 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2791 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2792 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2793 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2794 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2795 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2796 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2797 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2798 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2799 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2800 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2801 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2802 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2804 Audio outputs and filters:
2805 * Replay gain support
2806 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2807 new scaletempo audio filter)
2808 * New spatializer audio filter
2809 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2812 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2813 * New RTP payload formats:
2814 * Speex voice audio codec
2815 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2816 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2817 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2818 * DCCP transport for RTP
2819 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2824 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2825 end-user suitable way.
2826 * Improved user interaction
2827 * Improved mouse gestures
2828 * Vastly improved Update checker
2829 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2831 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2832 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2834 * Improved video output features
2835 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2836 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2837 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2838 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2839 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2841 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2842 if libncursesw is available.
2843 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2844 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2845 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2847 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2848 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2849 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2850 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2851 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2852 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2853 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2854 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2857 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2858 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2859 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2862 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2863 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2864 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2865 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2866 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2867 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2870 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2871 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2881 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2882 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2883 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2886 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2887 ----------------------------------
2890 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2893 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2894 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2895 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2896 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2897 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2898 * Updated Polish translation
2901 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2902 ----------------------------------
2905 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2906 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2907 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2910 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2911 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2912 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2913 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2914 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2915 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2916 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2917 to an unexpected application termination
2918 * New Serbian translation
2919 * Updated Romanian translation
2922 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2923 ----------------------------------
2926 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2927 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2928 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2929 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2930 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2931 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2932 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2933 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2936 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2937 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2938 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2939 * Fixed AAC resampling
2940 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2941 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2944 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2945 ----------------------------------
2948 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2949 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2950 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2951 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2952 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2955 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2956 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2957 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2958 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2959 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2962 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2963 ----------------------------------
2966 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2967 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2970 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2971 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2972 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2973 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2975 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2979 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2982 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2985 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2988 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2991 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2992 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2993 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2994 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2995 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2997 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2998 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2999 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3000 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3003 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3006 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3007 ----------------------------------
3010 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3011 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3012 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3014 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3015 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3017 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3018 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3021 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3023 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3024 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3025 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3026 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3027 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3028 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3029 two different movies
3030 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3031 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3032 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3035 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3038 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3039 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3040 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3041 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3044 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3045 ----------------------------------
3047 Various bugfixes, notably:
3048 * Windows Vista compatibility
3049 * Cropping in Direct3D
3050 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3051 * RSS filter string overflow
3053 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3055 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3056 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3059 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3060 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3063 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3066 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3069 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3072 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3073 ----------------------------------
3075 Various bugfixes, notably:
3076 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3077 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3078 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3079 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3080 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3081 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3084 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3085 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3088 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3090 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3091 * Diverse usability improvements
3092 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3093 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3094 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3097 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3098 ---------------------------------
3100 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3101 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3104 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3107 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3108 --------------------------------
3111 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3114 * Support for RTSP authentication
3115 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3116 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3117 * ATSC support for DVB input
3118 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3119 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3120 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3123 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3124 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3125 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3126 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3127 * Matroska WavPack support
3128 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3129 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3130 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3133 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3134 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3135 * Improved libcaca support
3139 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3140 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3142 * Systray support in skins
3144 * Support for Apple Remote control
3145 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3146 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3147 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3148 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3150 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3153 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3154 Windows 9x/ME users:
3155 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3156 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3157 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3158 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3159 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3161 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3162 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3171 * Updates to the libvlc API
3172 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3175 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3176 --------------------------------
3179 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3180 * Support for downloading updates
3184 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3185 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3186 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3187 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3189 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3190 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3191 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3194 * Cook (Real audio) support
3196 Playlist / Services discovery:
3197 * XSPF playlist support
3199 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3202 * New JACK audio output
3205 * New video filters:
3206 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3207 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3208 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3209 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3210 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3211 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3214 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3217 * System to inform the user and request information
3218 - HTTP authentication
3222 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3223 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3224 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3227 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3228 - Improved playlist handling
3229 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3231 - Embedded Video output
3232 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3233 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3234 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3235 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3236 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3238 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3239 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3242 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3245 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3246 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3247 * Growl "Now playing" support
3250 * Ability to log to syslog
3251 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3254 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3256 * A bit more automatic testing
3259 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3260 ---------------------------------
3263 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3264 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3267 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3268 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3271 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3274 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3275 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3281 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3284 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3285 --------------------------------
3288 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3292 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3293 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3294 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3297 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3298 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3299 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3300 * GnomeVFS input module
3301 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3302 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3305 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3306 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3307 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3310 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3311 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3317 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3318 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3321 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3322 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3323 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3326 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3328 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3329 - New extended controls panel
3330 - New bookmarks window
3331 - Fixed playlist sorting
3332 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3334 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3335 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3336 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3337 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3341 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3342 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3344 - Include macro to include other files
3348 * Should now work outside IE as well
3351 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3354 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3355 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3358 The following languages were added:
3362 * Simplified Chinese
3363 The following languages were re-added:
3367 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3368 --------------------------------
3371 * Rewrite of the playlist
3373 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3374 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3375 * Preferences improvements:
3376 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3377 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3379 * Core image manipulation support
3380 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3381 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3382 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3383 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3384 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3385 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3386 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3387 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3388 * Access filter architecture
3389 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3390 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3394 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3395 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3396 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3397 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3398 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3399 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3400 * Massive Matroska improvements
3401 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3403 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3404 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3405 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3406 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3407 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3409 Decoders / Encoders:
3410 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3411 * PNG decoder/encoder
3412 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3413 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3416 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3419 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3420 * Brand new SAP module
3421 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3422 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3423 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3424 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3425 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3426 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3430 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3433 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3434 * Image file video output (png)
3435 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3436 * Improvements to wall video filter
3437 * Support for font color and opacity
3443 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3444 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3445 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3449 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3450 - Improved preferences
3451 - Improvements to the wizard
3452 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3454 - Redesigned playlist
3455 - Improved preferences
3457 - Support for multiple actions
3460 - Support for the new playlist system
3462 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3465 * Screensaver disabling fix
3466 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3467 * Support for no-decoration windows
3470 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3471 * The OpenGL video output is back
3472 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3473 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3474 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3475 is not yet available in the new module
3476 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3479 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3488 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3491 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3494 The following languages were added:
3500 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3501 --------------------------------
3504 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3505 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3508 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3509 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3510 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3513 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3516 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3519 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3522 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3523 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3524 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3528 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3530 * Support of playlist group announcement
3533 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3534 --------------------------------
3537 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3538 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3539 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3540 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3541 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3542 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3545 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3546 (Stream your desktop)
3547 * Improved DVD support:
3548 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3549 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3550 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3551 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3552 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3553 (selection of titles/chapters).
3556 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3557 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3558 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3559 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3560 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3561 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3562 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3563 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3564 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3565 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3568 * G.726 audio support
3569 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3570 * MPEG-4 text support
3571 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3572 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3573 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3577 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3578 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3579 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3580 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3581 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3582 * DVB subtitles encoder
3583 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3584 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3586 * Text track muxing for mp4
3587 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3588 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3589 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3590 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3591 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3592 * Improved ASF muxer
3594 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3595 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3596 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3599 * New audio equalizer filter
3600 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3601 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3602 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3603 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3606 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3607 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3608 with support for effects.
3609 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3610 - New filters can be streamed.
3611 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3612 - Centralized scaling and blending
3614 - "time", to display current time
3615 - "marq", to display a marquee
3618 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3619 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3620 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3621 * A few skins2 improvements
3622 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3623 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3624 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3625 * Improved CORBA control module
3628 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3629 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3630 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3633 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3634 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3635 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3638 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3639 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3640 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3641 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3642 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3645 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3648 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3649 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3652 * Server/client network synchronization module
3653 * VBrick streams fully supported
3654 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3658 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3659 --------------------------------
3662 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3663 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3664 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3665 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3668 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3669 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3670 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3671 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3672 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3673 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3674 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3677 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3678 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3679 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3680 * Improved directory access module.
3681 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3682 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3683 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3684 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3685 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3688 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3689 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3690 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3693 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3694 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3695 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3698 * Improved session announcement system.
3699 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3700 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3701 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3702 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3703 * Improved transrater.
3704 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3705 * New configuration system.
3706 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3709 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3710 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3711 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3712 * Supports scheduling.
3713 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3714 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3717 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3718 - Ability to embed video output.
3719 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3720 - Lots of improvements.
3721 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3722 - New design and set of icons.
3723 - Ability to embed video output.
3724 - Support for hotkeys.
3725 - Support for bookmarks.
3727 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3728 - Better hotkeys handling.
3731 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3732 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3733 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3734 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3737 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3738 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3739 * Improved Windows installer.
3745 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3746 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3749 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3750 ---------------------------------
3753 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3754 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3757 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3758 --------------------------------
3761 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3762 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3765 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3766 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3767 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3768 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3771 * Internal improvments
3772 * Improved import/export
3775 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3777 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3778 small and strange formats.
3780 * New MOD audio demux.
3781 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3782 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3783 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3784 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3787 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3788 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3789 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3795 * New opengl video output plugin.
3798 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3799 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3802 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3803 --------------------------------
3806 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3807 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3808 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3809 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3810 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3811 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3812 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3813 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3816 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3821 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3822 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3823 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3824 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3825 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3826 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3827 * Better Icecast support.
3828 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3829 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3832 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3833 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3834 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3835 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3836 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3837 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3838 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3841 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3842 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3843 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3844 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3845 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3846 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3847 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3848 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3849 * Preliminary RTP support.
3850 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3855 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3856 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3858 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3859 - Improvements and help in preferences
3860 - New streaming wizard
3861 - Revised Disc Open menu
3863 - Improvements of the standard pages
3864 - Support for new commands
3865 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3868 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3869 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3872 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3873 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3874 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3875 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3876 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3877 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3878 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3879 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3880 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3883 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3885 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3886 * Support for Panther.
3887 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3888 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3891 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3892 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3893 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3894 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3895 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3896 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3897 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3898 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3901 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3902 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3903 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3906 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3909 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3910 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3911 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3912 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3915 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3916 --------------------------------
3919 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3922 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3923 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3926 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3927 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3930 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3933 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3934 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3937 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3940 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3943 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3944 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3948 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3949 --------------------------------
3952 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3953 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3957 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3958 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3959 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3961 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3962 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3965 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3968 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3971 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3972 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3976 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3977 --------------------------------
3980 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3981 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3985 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3986 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3987 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3988 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3989 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3992 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3993 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3994 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3997 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3998 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3999 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4002 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4003 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4004 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4005 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4006 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4009 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4010 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4011 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4014 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4017 * Improved build system.
4018 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4019 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4020 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4021 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4024 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4025 --------------------------------
4028 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4031 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4032 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4033 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4034 * Video 4 Linux support
4035 * CD Digital Audio support
4036 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4039 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4040 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4041 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4042 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4045 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4046 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4047 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4048 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4049 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4050 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4051 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4054 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4055 * New HTTP remote control interface
4058 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4059 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4060 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4061 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4062 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4065 * New reset option for the preferences
4066 * You can set your language in the prefences
4067 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4068 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4069 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4070 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4073 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4074 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4075 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4078 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4079 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4080 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4081 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4082 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4083 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4084 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4085 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4086 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4087 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4090 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4091 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4092 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4093 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4094 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4095 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4096 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4099 * Interface localization
4100 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4101 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4102 * New full-featured Preferences window
4105 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4106 --------------------------------
4109 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4110 * support for skins at the interface level
4111 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4112 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4113 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4114 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4115 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4118 * fixed HTTP redirects
4119 * support for opening an entire directory
4120 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4121 * new video4linux access plug-in
4122 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4125 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4126 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4127 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4130 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4131 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4132 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4133 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4134 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4135 * new codec for raw I420 video
4136 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4139 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4140 (although it still misses some important features)
4141 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4144 * new HTTP output support
4145 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4146 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4149 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4152 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4155 * reorderable playlist
4156 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4157 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4158 * support for mono audio output devices
4159 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4160 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4161 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4162 * the messages window remembers more lines
4163 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4164 * http and ogg stream output options
4165 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4168 * new skinnable interface
4169 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4171 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4172 * support for FLAC audio format
4173 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4175 * network tab in the interface
4176 * "apply" handling in preferences
4179 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4180 ---------------------------------
4183 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4184 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4185 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4186 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4188 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4189 * DTS S/PDIF support
4192 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4193 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4194 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4195 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4198 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4199 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4202 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4205 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4208 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4210 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4211 * rc interface is now fully useable
4212 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4215 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4216 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4217 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4218 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4219 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4221 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4222 * support for mouse gestures
4223 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4226 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4227 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4230 * improved ID3 tag detection
4231 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4232 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4233 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4235 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4238 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4239 ---------------------------------
4242 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4243 English was set as the preferred language
4246 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4247 --------------------------------
4250 * new mouse gesture interface
4251 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4255 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4256 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4257 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4260 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4261 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4265 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4268 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4269 without the user consent
4272 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4274 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4275 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4276 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4279 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4280 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4281 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4282 * playlist enhancements
4283 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4284 * new step forward/step backward commands
4285 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4286 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4287 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4290 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4291 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4292 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4295 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4296 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4299 * native video output is working again
4300 * only commandline interface support
4301 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4304 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4305 --------------------------------
4308 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4309 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4310 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4311 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4312 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4313 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4314 and A/52 streams are supported)
4315 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4320 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4321 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4322 * VCD entry points support
4323 * VCD image file support
4326 * support for *.asf format
4327 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4328 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4329 * support for ogg encapsulation
4330 * support for raw DV format
4331 * support for *.wav format
4332 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4335 Stream discovery & playlists:
4336 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4337 * support for .m3u file format
4338 * support for .asx file format
4339 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4342 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4343 (only available with the .avi demux)
4344 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4345 * support for raw PCM data
4346 * support for Cinepak video codec
4347 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4348 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4349 * support for Xvid codec
4350 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4351 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4352 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4354 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4356 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4359 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4362 * new WxWindows interface
4363 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4364 device and the channels configuration
4365 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4366 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4367 format that VLC can play
4368 * new swedish translation
4369 * enhancements of the playlist window
4370 * new messages window to see debug info
4371 * fixed a few crashes
4374 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4375 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4376 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4377 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working