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
19 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
20 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
21 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
24 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
25 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
26 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
27 * Support for Daala video
28 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
29 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
30 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
31 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
32 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
34 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
35 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
38 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
39 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
40 * Support Daala in Ogg
41 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
42 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
43 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
44 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
45 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
46 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
47 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
48 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
49 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
52 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
55 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
56 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
59 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
60 * Wayland shell surface window provider
61 * Wayland shared memory video output
62 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
63 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
64 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
65 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
66 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
69 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
70 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
73 * Chromecast output module
74 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
77 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
80 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
81 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
85 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
86 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
89 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
90 * Port to Yosemite X.10
93 * Batch convert support
96 * Support key accelerators
99 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
100 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
101 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
102 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
103 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
104 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
105 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
106 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
107 identifier (if there is one available)
110 * Support for the SystemD Journal
111 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
112 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
113 * New Android module for logging
116 * remove langfromtelx
117 * remove ZPL playlist format
120 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
121 --------------------------------
124 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
125 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
128 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
129 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
130 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
131 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
134 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
135 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
136 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
137 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
139 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
140 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
141 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
144 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
145 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
146 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
147 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
148 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
149 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
150 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
151 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
152 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
153 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
154 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
155 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
156 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
157 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
158 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
159 * New jpeg image decoder
160 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
161 * New SVG image decoder
162 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
163 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
164 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
167 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
168 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
169 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
170 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
171 * New png image encoder using libpng
174 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
175 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
176 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
177 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
178 synchronization and tracks exclusion
179 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
180 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
181 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
182 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
183 * Support Opus in MKV
185 * Basic support for WebVTT
186 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
187 * Support HDPR TS files
188 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
189 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
190 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
191 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
192 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
193 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
194 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
195 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
196 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
197 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
198 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
199 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
202 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
203 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
204 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
205 * New Android native window provider module
206 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
207 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
208 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
211 * New Oldmovie effect filter
212 * New VHS effect filter
213 * New Freeze effect filter
214 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
215 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
216 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
219 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
220 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
221 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
222 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
223 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
224 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
227 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
228 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
230 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
233 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
234 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
235 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
236 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
237 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
238 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
239 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
240 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
241 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
243 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
244 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
245 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
248 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
249 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
252 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
253 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
256 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
257 * Add record button in Qt menus
258 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
259 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
260 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
263 * Support for OS X Yosemite
264 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
265 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
266 * Fixes for advanced preferences
267 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
268 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
269 * Option to increase playlist font size
270 * Improved crash log reporting
273 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
274 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
275 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
276 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
279 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
282 * iOS video output: use ios2
283 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
284 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
287 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
288 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
289 * Update of all translations:
290 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
291 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
292 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
293 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
294 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
295 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
296 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
299 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
300 --------------------------------
306 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
307 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
308 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
309 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
310 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
311 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
312 * Fix potential crash in zip access
313 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
316 * Update translations and greek encoding
319 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
320 --------------------------------
323 * Fix compilation on OS/2
326 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
328 Mac OS X audio output:
329 * Fix channel ordering
330 * Increase the buffersize
333 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
334 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
335 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
338 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
341 * Correctly support video-on-top
342 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
343 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
346 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
349 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
350 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
353 * Update British English
356 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
357 --------------------------------
360 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
363 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
366 * Fix DVD playback regression
367 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
368 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
371 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
372 --------------------------------
375 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
376 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
379 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
380 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
381 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
384 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
385 by updating codec libraries
386 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
387 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
388 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
391 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
392 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
393 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
394 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
397 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
398 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
401 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
402 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
403 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
404 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
405 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
408 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
409 * Fix record file names
412 * Fix minimal size possible on start
413 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
414 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
415 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
416 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
419 * Fix album art display on Windows
422 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
423 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
424 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
425 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
426 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
427 and Simplified Chinese translations
428 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
431 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
432 --------------------------------
435 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
436 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
437 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
438 audio devices on OS X
439 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
440 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
443 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
444 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
447 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
448 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
451 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
454 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
455 * Improve A-B loop control
456 * Fix album art update when changing media
459 * Add a language option in the interface
460 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
461 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
462 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
463 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
464 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
465 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
466 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
469 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
472 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
473 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
474 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
475 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
478 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
479 --------------------------------
482 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
484 * Fix some subtitles track selection
487 * VP9 support in WebM
488 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
489 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
492 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
493 * Support Speex in ogg files
494 * Fix some .mov playlists support
495 * Support Alac in mkv
496 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
497 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
500 * Fix DVB options parsing
501 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
502 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
505 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
506 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
509 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
510 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
513 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
514 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
515 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
516 * Fix play after drag'n drop
517 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
520 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
521 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
524 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
525 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
528 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
529 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
530 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
531 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
532 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
533 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
534 * Improves interface resizings
537 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
538 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
539 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
540 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
541 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
545 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
546 --------------------------------
549 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
550 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
551 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
552 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
553 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
555 3rd party libraries (contrib):
556 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
559 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
560 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
561 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
562 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
563 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
566 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
567 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
571 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
572 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
573 * Support for Ulead DV audio
574 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
575 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
576 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
577 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
578 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
579 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
580 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
581 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
582 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
583 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
586 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
587 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
588 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
591 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
592 remove support for previous OS X releases
593 * Major improvements in DASH support
594 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
595 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
596 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
597 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
598 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
599 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
600 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
601 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
602 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
603 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
604 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
607 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
608 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
609 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
610 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
611 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
612 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
613 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
614 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
615 * Support for more MJPEG streams
616 * Add support for liveleak streams
617 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
618 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
619 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
622 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
623 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
624 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
625 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
626 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
627 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
628 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
629 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
630 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
631 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
632 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
635 * New remapping channel filter
636 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
637 * New VSXu visualization plugin
638 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
639 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
640 * New gain audio filter
643 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
644 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
645 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
646 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
647 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
648 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
649 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
650 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
651 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
654 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
655 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
656 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
657 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
658 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
659 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
660 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
663 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
664 * Options support for AVIO output module
665 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
666 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
667 * Livehttp stream encryption support
668 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
669 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
672 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
675 * configurable password for the HTTP server
676 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
677 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
678 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
679 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
680 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
681 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
682 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
686 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
689 * Add support for multiple video outputs
690 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
692 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
693 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
694 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
695 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
696 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
697 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
698 VLC's internal volume level
699 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
701 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
702 selection and to manage the list of presets
703 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
704 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
705 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
706 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
707 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
708 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
709 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
710 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
711 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
712 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
714 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
715 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
716 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
717 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
718 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
719 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
720 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
721 3rd party applications
722 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
723 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
724 (system-wide settings)
725 * Add support for the Video Title option
726 * Add support for the Boss Key
727 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
728 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
731 * Partial support for Qt5.0
732 * Menus modifications and improvements
733 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
734 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
735 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
736 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
737 * EPG display fixes and improvements
738 * Add SD pixmap sources
739 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
740 * Display playlist total duration
741 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
742 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
743 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
748 * Extend sliders, offsets options
749 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
750 * Numerous fixes and improvements
751 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
754 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
755 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
756 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
757 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
758 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
759 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
760 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
761 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
762 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
763 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
766 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
767 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
768 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
769 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
770 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
771 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
773 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
774 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
775 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
776 * Broken crop video filter
778 * OSD parser and menu
779 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
780 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
781 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
782 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
786 * Update of all translations
789 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
790 --------------------------------
793 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
794 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
797 * Fix modplug security issues
800 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
801 --------------------------------
805 * Fix crash in QTsound
806 * Fix screen mouse file location
807 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
810 * Fix use after free in sgimb
811 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
814 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
817 * Fix interface crashes
818 * Fix autostart playback option
819 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
822 * update Welsh translation
823 * New Kannada translation
826 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
831 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
835 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
838 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
841 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
844 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
848 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
851 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
854 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
855 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
856 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
859 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
860 --------------------------------
863 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
866 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
869 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
870 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
871 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
872 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
873 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
874 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
877 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
878 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
879 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
880 * 3rd party codecs updates
883 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
884 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
885 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
886 in the advanced preferences panel
887 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
888 * Fix crash within the video output code
889 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
890 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
891 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
892 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
894 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
897 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
900 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
901 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
904 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
907 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
908 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
909 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
910 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
911 Dutch, Danish, translations
912 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
915 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
916 --------------------------------
919 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
922 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
923 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
924 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
927 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
928 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
929 * Fix koreus lua parser
930 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
931 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
932 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
933 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
936 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
937 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
940 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
943 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
944 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
945 * Fix Time counter UI look
946 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
949 * Fix https streaming
952 * Fix audio and video track selection:
953 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
954 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
957 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
958 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
959 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
960 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
961 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
964 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
965 --------------------------------
968 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
969 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
970 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
971 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
972 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
973 during playback on Mac OS X
976 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
977 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
978 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
981 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
982 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
983 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
984 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
985 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
988 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
989 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
990 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
991 * Support Youtube live streams
994 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
997 * Fix media info dialog update
998 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
999 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1000 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1001 * Fix album art display at start
1004 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1005 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1006 * Fix menus display and behavior
1007 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1008 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1009 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1010 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1011 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1012 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1013 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1016 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1017 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1018 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1019 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1020 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1021 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1022 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1023 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1024 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1027 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1028 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1029 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1030 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1031 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1034 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1035 --------------------------------
1038 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1041 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1042 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1045 * Add GateKeeper support
1046 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1047 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1048 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1051 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1054 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1055 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1056 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1057 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1058 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1061 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1062 --------------------------------
1065 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1066 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1067 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1068 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1069 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1070 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1071 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1072 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1073 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1074 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1075 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1079 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1080 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1081 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1082 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1083 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1084 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1085 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1086 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1087 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1088 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1089 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1090 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1093 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1094 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1096 * Fix MP3 free format support
1099 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1100 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1101 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1102 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1103 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1106 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1107 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1109 Audio filters and output:
1110 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1111 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1112 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1113 * Do not apply volume in file output
1114 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1115 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1118 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1119 the persistant media library
1120 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1121 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1122 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1123 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1124 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1125 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1126 press on the Play/Pause button
1127 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1128 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1129 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1130 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1131 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1132 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1133 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1134 Synchronization panel
1135 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1136 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1137 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1138 * Fix crashes on exit
1139 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1141 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1142 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1143 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1144 automatically reset on the first launch.
1145 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1146 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1147 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1150 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1151 * Fixes for icecast SD
1154 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1155 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1156 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1157 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1158 * Fix tags and file names display
1159 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1162 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1163 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1166 * Fix display of some buttons
1167 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1168 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1171 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1172 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1173 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1176 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1177 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1178 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1179 Thai translations update
1180 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1183 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1184 --------------------------------
1187 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1188 * fix the samba module compilation
1189 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1190 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1191 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1192 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1195 * Support for MXPEG files
1196 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1197 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1200 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1201 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1202 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1205 * Fix ogm header creation
1208 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1209 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1212 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1213 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1214 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1215 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1218 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1221 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1222 * allow to hide the sidebar
1223 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1224 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1225 * noticebly faster launch time
1226 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1227 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1228 * improve track synchronization panel
1229 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1230 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1233 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1234 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1235 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1236 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1239 * fix for menus display
1240 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1241 * documentation update
1244 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1245 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1248 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1249 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1250 * Update Jamendo selections
1254 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1255 * fix a crash on VLM close
1258 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1259 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1260 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1261 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1264 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1267 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1268 ---------------------------------
1271 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1272 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1273 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1274 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1275 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1276 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1277 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1278 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1279 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1280 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1281 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1282 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1283 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1284 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1285 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1286 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1287 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1288 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1289 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1290 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1291 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1292 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1293 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1294 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1295 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1296 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1298 Important changes for packagers:
1299 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1300 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1301 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1302 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1303 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1304 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1305 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1306 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1307 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1308 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1311 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1312 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1313 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1314 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1315 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1316 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1317 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1320 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1321 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1322 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1323 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1324 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1325 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1326 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1327 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1328 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1329 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1330 * PulseAudio audio input support
1331 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1332 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1333 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1334 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1335 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1336 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1337 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1338 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1341 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1342 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1343 are notably concerned.
1344 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1345 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1346 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1347 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1348 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1349 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1350 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1351 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1352 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1353 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1354 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1355 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1356 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1357 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1358 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1361 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1362 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1363 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1364 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1365 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1366 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1367 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1368 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1369 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1370 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1371 * Improved support of tracker files
1372 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1375 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1376 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1377 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1378 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1379 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1380 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1381 and important cleanups and optimisations
1382 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1383 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1384 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1385 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1386 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1387 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1388 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1389 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1390 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1391 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1392 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1393 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1394 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1395 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1396 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1397 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1398 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1399 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1400 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1401 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1402 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1405 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1406 * New video output for iOS platform
1407 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1408 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1409 * Various vmem improvements
1410 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1411 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1412 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1413 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1414 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1415 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1417 Audio Output and Filters:
1418 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1419 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1420 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1421 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1422 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1423 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1424 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1425 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1426 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1427 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1430 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1431 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1432 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1433 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1434 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1435 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1436 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1437 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1438 * New anti-flickering filter
1439 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1440 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1441 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1442 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1443 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1444 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1445 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1448 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1449 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1450 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1451 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1452 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1453 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1454 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1455 * Major rework of VoD support
1456 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1457 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1458 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1459 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1460 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1461 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1462 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1463 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1464 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1465 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1468 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1469 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1472 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1473 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1474 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1475 list of available audio and video filters
1476 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1477 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1478 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1481 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1482 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1483 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1484 * id3tag: use taglib
1485 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1486 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1487 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1488 * removal of the noise filter
1489 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1490 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1491 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1492 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1495 * Update of translations for most languages.
1496 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1499 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1500 ----------------------------------
1503 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1504 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1507 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1508 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1511 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1512 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1513 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1516 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1519 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1520 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1523 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1526 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1527 ----------------------------------
1530 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1531 including support for OS X Lion
1532 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1533 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1536 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1539 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1540 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1541 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1544 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1547 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1548 ----------------------------------
1551 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1552 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1555 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1556 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1557 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1558 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1559 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1561 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1562 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1563 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1565 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1566 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1569 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1572 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1575 * Fix quitting on Linux
1576 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1580 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1583 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1586 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1587 ---------------------------------
1589 Windows and Mac OS X:
1590 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1593 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1594 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1597 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1600 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1603 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1605 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1606 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1608 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1609 * RTP output and XML export
1610 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1614 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1615 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1616 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1617 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1620 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1621 --------------------------------
1623 Windows and Mac OS X:
1624 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1627 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1630 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1631 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1632 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1633 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1634 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1635 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1638 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1639 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1643 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1644 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1645 * New Luganda Translation
1648 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1655 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1656 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1657 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1658 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1661 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1663 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1664 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1665 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1666 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1667 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1668 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1669 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1670 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1672 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1673 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1674 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1675 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1676 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1677 * Configure and build system improvements
1678 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1681 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1682 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1683 * New icelandic translation
1686 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1687 --------------------------------
1690 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1691 #234484 and #260719.
1694 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1695 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1696 and stability reasons
1699 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1703 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1706 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1707 ----------------------------------
1710 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1713 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1714 ---------------------------------
1717 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1718 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1719 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1720 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1723 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1726 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1727 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1728 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1729 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1732 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1733 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1734 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1736 Subtitles and renderer:
1737 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1738 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1739 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1740 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1741 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1744 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1745 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1746 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1747 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1750 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1751 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1753 Miscellaneous fixes:
1754 * KDE device solid actions
1756 * Transcode integer overflow
1757 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1758 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1761 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1762 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1763 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1766 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1767 ----------------------------------
1770 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1774 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1777 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1780 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1781 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1782 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1783 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1786 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1790 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1793 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1796 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1797 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1799 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1803 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1804 * Miscellaneous fixes
1807 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1808 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1809 French and Ukrainian
1810 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1811 * New Asturian translation
1814 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1815 ----------------------------------
1818 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1820 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1823 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1826 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1827 * Various fixes for Windows
1830 * New Armenian translation
1831 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1832 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1835 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1836 --------------------------------
1839 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1840 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1841 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1844 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1845 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1848 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1849 --------------------------------
1851 Access and demuxers:
1852 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1853 * fix for podcasts parsing
1854 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1857 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1858 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1861 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1862 * fix m3u playlists exports
1865 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1868 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1871 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1874 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1877 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1880 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1881 --------------------------------
1884 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1885 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1888 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1889 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1892 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1893 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1894 * fix console output encoding
1896 Interface and extensions:
1897 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1898 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1901 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1902 --------------------------------
1905 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1906 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1907 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1908 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1909 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1910 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1911 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1912 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1913 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1914 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1915 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1916 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1917 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1918 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1919 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1920 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1924 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1925 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1926 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1927 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1928 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1931 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1934 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1935 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1936 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1940 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1943 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1944 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1945 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1948 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1949 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1950 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1951 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1954 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1955 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1958 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1959 --------------------------------
1961 Important changes for users:
1962 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1963 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1965 Important changes for packagers:
1966 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1967 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1968 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1969 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1970 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1972 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1974 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1975 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1976 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1977 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1978 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1981 * Support for the sftp protocol
1982 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1983 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1984 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1985 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1986 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1989 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1990 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1991 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1993 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1994 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1995 * Invmem module improvements
1996 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1997 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1998 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1999 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2000 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2001 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2002 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2003 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2004 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2005 * Support for VP8 codec
2006 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2009 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2010 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2011 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2012 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2013 * Various EGP improvements
2014 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2015 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2018 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2019 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2020 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2021 * Podcast images are now displayed
2024 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2025 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2026 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2027 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2028 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2029 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2030 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2031 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2032 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2033 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2034 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2037 * New content extensions lua framework
2040 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2041 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2042 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2043 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2044 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2045 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2046 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2049 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2050 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2051 * Service discovery based on libudev
2052 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2055 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2056 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2057 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2058 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2059 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2060 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2061 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2064 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2065 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2066 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2069 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2071 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2072 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2075 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2078 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2079 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2080 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2081 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2082 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2083 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2084 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2087 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2088 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2091 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2092 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2093 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2097 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2098 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2099 * Improved Solaris port
2102 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2103 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2106 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2107 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2108 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2109 * transrate: broken since too long
2110 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2111 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2112 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2113 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2114 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2115 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2116 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2117 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2118 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2119 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2120 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2121 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2122 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2123 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2126 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2127 --------------------------------
2130 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2132 Decoders/Packetizers:
2133 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2136 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2137 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2138 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2139 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2140 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2143 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2144 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2147 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2148 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2151 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2152 and Walloon translations updated
2153 * Sinhala translation started
2156 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2157 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2160 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2161 --------------------------------
2164 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2165 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2168 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2171 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2172 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2175 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2176 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2177 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2178 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2181 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2182 --------------------------------
2185 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2186 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2189 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2190 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2193 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2194 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2197 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2200 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2201 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2204 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2205 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2208 * New Walloon translation
2209 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2212 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2213 --------------------------------
2216 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2217 regressions in most popular drivers
2218 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2221 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2222 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2223 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2226 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2227 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2230 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2231 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2232 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2233 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2234 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2237 * New udev module for linux
2240 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2243 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2246 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2247 --------------------------------
2250 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2251 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2252 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2255 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2256 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2259 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2260 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2263 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2266 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2267 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2268 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2269 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2272 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2273 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2274 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2275 - no support for Goom and SDL
2276 - limited text rendering support
2277 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2280 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2281 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2282 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2283 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2284 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2285 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2286 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2287 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2288 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2292 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2295 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2298 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2299 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2300 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2301 Arabic and French translation updates
2304 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2305 --------------------------------
2308 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2309 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2310 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2311 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2312 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2313 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2316 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2317 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2318 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2321 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2322 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2323 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2326 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2329 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2330 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2333 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2334 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2335 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2336 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2337 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2338 * Fix various crashes
2341 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2343 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2347 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2348 ---------------------------------
2352 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2353 See 'Access:' for more info.
2354 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2357 * Instantaneous pausing
2358 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2359 * Finer speed control
2360 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2361 * Timeshift for most medias
2362 * RTSP trickplay support
2363 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2366 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2367 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2368 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2369 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2370 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2371 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2372 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2373 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2374 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2375 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2378 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2379 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2380 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2381 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2382 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2383 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2384 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2387 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2388 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2391 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2392 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2393 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2394 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2395 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2396 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2397 * DVB scanning on linux
2398 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2399 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2400 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2401 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2402 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2403 * MTP device access on Unix
2404 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2405 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2408 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2409 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2410 Windows and Mac OS X.
2413 * Export the playlist in HTML
2414 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2415 * Better metadata handling and reading
2417 Linux/Windows interface:
2418 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2419 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2420 * Recently played items list
2421 * Interface toolbar customizations
2422 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2423 - More menus actions
2424 - Finer speed slider
2425 - Improvements on many dialogs
2426 - New dialog for plugins listing
2427 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2428 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2429 * Better integration in GTK environments
2432 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2433 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2434 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2435 * Additional usability improvements
2438 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2439 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2440 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2441 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2442 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2445 * New Maemo port with:
2446 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2447 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2450 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2453 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2454 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2455 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2456 * Support for latest iSight models
2459 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2460 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2463 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2464 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2465 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2466 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2467 The old image video output has been removed.
2468 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2469 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2472 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2480 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2481 --------------------------------------
2487 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2488 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2489 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2490 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2491 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2492 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2493 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2495 Various fixes to the following modules:
2498 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2499 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2500 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2502 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2507 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2508 ---------------------------------
2511 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2512 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2515 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2516 ---------------------------------
2519 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2522 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2525 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2526 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2527 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2528 main controller window.
2529 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2532 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2537 * Updates of other localizations
2540 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2541 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2542 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2543 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2544 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2547 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2548 ---------------------------------
2551 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2553 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2556 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2557 --------------------------------
2562 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2563 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2566 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2567 --------------------------------
2569 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2570 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2573 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2576 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2577 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2580 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2581 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2584 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2585 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2586 * Various fixed in playlist
2589 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2592 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2595 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2596 ------------------------------------
2598 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2599 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2602 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2603 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2604 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2607 * Stability fix for the video output.
2610 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2611 --------------------------------
2614 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2615 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2616 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2617 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2618 * Fixed update system bugs
2619 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2622 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2623 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2624 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2625 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2626 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2627 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2628 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2629 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2630 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2631 modern Mac OS X versions
2634 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2635 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2637 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2638 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2641 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2642 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2643 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2644 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2645 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2646 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2649 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2650 --------------------------------
2652 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2653 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2654 * Multiple bugfixes.
2657 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2658 --------------------------------
2660 * Multiple bug fixes.
2663 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2664 ---------------------------------
2668 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2669 recent to work correctly
2670 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2671 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2672 edit the ".hosts" file.
2673 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2674 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2675 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2676 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2677 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2678 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2679 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2680 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2681 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2682 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2683 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2684 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2685 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2686 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2687 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2688 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2689 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2690 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2691 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2692 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2693 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2694 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2695 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2696 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2697 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2698 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2699 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2700 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2701 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2702 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2703 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2704 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2705 and postproc modules.
2706 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2707 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2708 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2709 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2711 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2712 filter. For example:
2713 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2714 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2716 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2717 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2723 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2725 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2726 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2729 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2730 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2732 * Shoutcast TV listings
2733 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2735 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2736 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2738 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2741 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2742 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2743 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2744 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2745 * JACK audio input support
2746 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2747 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2748 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2749 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2750 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2751 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2752 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2753 (available as a separate download).
2754 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2755 * RTMP input support
2756 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2757 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2758 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2760 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2761 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2764 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2765 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2766 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2767 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2769 * APEv1/2 tags support
2770 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2771 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2773 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2774 * TiVo Series 2 support
2775 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2780 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2781 * Flash Screen Video support
2782 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2783 * DosBox Capture support
2784 * Karl Morton's Video support
2785 * limited atrac3 support
2787 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2788 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2789 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2790 * H.264 PAFF support
2791 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2792 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2793 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2794 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2795 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2798 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2799 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2800 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2801 * AQTitle subtitles support
2802 * MKV USF subtitles support
2803 * HTML-based subtitles support
2804 * MPSub subtitles support
2805 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2806 * MPL2 subtitles support
2807 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2808 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2809 * Realtext subtitle support
2810 * DKS subtitle support
2811 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2812 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2815 * Flash Screen Video support
2816 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2818 Video outputs and filters:
2819 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2820 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2821 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2822 * New puzzle video output filter
2823 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2824 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2826 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2827 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2828 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2829 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2830 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2831 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2832 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2833 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2834 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2835 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2836 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2837 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2838 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2839 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2841 Audio outputs and filters:
2842 * Replay gain support
2843 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2844 new scaletempo audio filter)
2845 * New spatializer audio filter
2846 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2849 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2850 * New RTP payload formats:
2851 * Speex voice audio codec
2852 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2853 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2854 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2855 * DCCP transport for RTP
2856 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2861 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2862 end-user suitable way.
2863 * Improved user interaction
2864 * Improved mouse gestures
2865 * Vastly improved Update checker
2866 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2868 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2869 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2871 * Improved video output features
2872 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2873 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2874 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2875 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2876 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2878 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2879 if libncursesw is available.
2880 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2881 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2882 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2884 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2885 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2886 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2887 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2888 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2889 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2890 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2891 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2894 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2895 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2896 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2899 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2900 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2901 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2902 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2903 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2904 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2907 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2908 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2918 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2919 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2920 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2923 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2924 ----------------------------------
2927 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2930 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2931 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2932 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2933 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2934 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2935 * Updated Polish translation
2938 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2939 ----------------------------------
2942 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2943 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2944 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2947 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2948 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2949 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2950 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2951 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2952 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2953 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2954 to an unexpected application termination
2955 * New Serbian translation
2956 * Updated Romanian translation
2959 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2960 ----------------------------------
2963 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2964 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2965 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2966 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2967 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2968 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2969 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2970 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2973 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2974 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2975 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2976 * Fixed AAC resampling
2977 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2978 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2981 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2982 ----------------------------------
2985 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2986 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2987 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2988 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2989 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2992 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2993 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2994 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2995 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2996 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2999 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3000 ----------------------------------
3003 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3004 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3007 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3008 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3009 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3010 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3012 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3016 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3019 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3022 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3025 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3028 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3029 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3030 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3031 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3032 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3034 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3035 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3036 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3037 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3040 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3043 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3044 ----------------------------------
3047 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3048 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3049 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3051 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3052 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3054 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3055 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3058 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3060 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3061 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3062 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3063 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3064 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3065 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3066 two different movies
3067 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3068 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3069 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3072 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3075 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3076 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3077 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3078 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3081 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3082 ----------------------------------
3084 Various bugfixes, notably:
3085 * Windows Vista compatibility
3086 * Cropping in Direct3D
3087 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3088 * RSS filter string overflow
3090 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3092 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3093 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3096 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3097 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3100 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3103 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3106 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3109 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3110 ----------------------------------
3112 Various bugfixes, notably:
3113 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3114 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3115 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3116 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3117 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3118 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3121 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3122 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3125 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3127 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3128 * Diverse usability improvements
3129 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3130 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3131 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3134 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3135 ---------------------------------
3137 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3138 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3141 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3144 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3145 --------------------------------
3148 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3151 * Support for RTSP authentication
3152 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3153 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3154 * ATSC support for DVB input
3155 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3156 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3157 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3160 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3161 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3162 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3163 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3164 * Matroska WavPack support
3165 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3166 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3167 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3170 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3171 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3172 * Improved libcaca support
3176 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3177 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3179 * Systray support in skins
3181 * Support for Apple Remote control
3182 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3183 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3184 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3185 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3187 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3190 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3191 Windows 9x/ME users:
3192 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3193 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3194 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3195 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3196 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3198 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3199 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3208 * Updates to the libvlc API
3209 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3212 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3213 --------------------------------
3216 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3217 * Support for downloading updates
3221 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3222 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3223 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3224 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3226 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3227 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3228 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3231 * Cook (Real audio) support
3233 Playlist / Services discovery:
3234 * XSPF playlist support
3236 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3239 * New JACK audio output
3242 * New video filters:
3243 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3244 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3245 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3246 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3247 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3248 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3251 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3254 * System to inform the user and request information
3255 - HTTP authentication
3259 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3260 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3261 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3264 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3265 - Improved playlist handling
3266 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3268 - Embedded Video output
3269 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3270 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3271 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3272 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3273 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3275 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3276 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3279 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3282 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3283 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3284 * Growl "Now playing" support
3287 * Ability to log to syslog
3288 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3291 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3293 * A bit more automatic testing
3296 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3297 ---------------------------------
3300 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3301 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3304 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3305 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3308 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3311 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3312 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3318 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3321 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3322 --------------------------------
3325 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3329 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3330 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3331 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3334 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3335 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3336 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3337 * GnomeVFS input module
3338 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3339 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3342 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3343 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3344 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3347 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3348 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3354 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3355 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3358 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3359 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3360 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3363 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3365 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3366 - New extended controls panel
3367 - New bookmarks window
3368 - Fixed playlist sorting
3369 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3371 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3372 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3373 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3374 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3378 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3379 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3381 - Include macro to include other files
3385 * Should now work outside IE as well
3388 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3391 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3392 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3395 The following languages were added:
3399 * Simplified Chinese
3400 The following languages were re-added:
3404 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3405 --------------------------------
3408 * Rewrite of the playlist
3410 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3411 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3412 * Preferences improvements:
3413 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3414 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3416 * Core image manipulation support
3417 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3418 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3419 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3420 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3421 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3422 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3423 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3424 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3425 * Access filter architecture
3426 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3427 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3431 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3432 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3433 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3434 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3435 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3436 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3437 * Massive Matroska improvements
3438 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3440 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3441 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3442 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3443 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3444 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3446 Decoders / Encoders:
3447 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3448 * PNG decoder/encoder
3449 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3450 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3453 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3456 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3457 * Brand new SAP module
3458 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3459 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3460 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3461 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3462 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3463 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3467 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3470 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3471 * Image file video output (png)
3472 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3473 * Improvements to wall video filter
3474 * Support for font color and opacity
3480 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3481 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3482 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3486 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3487 - Improved preferences
3488 - Improvements to the wizard
3489 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3491 - Redesigned playlist
3492 - Improved preferences
3494 - Support for multiple actions
3497 - Support for the new playlist system
3499 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3502 * Screensaver disabling fix
3503 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3504 * Support for no-decoration windows
3507 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3508 * The OpenGL video output is back
3509 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3510 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3511 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3512 is not yet available in the new module
3513 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3516 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3525 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3528 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3531 The following languages were added:
3537 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3538 --------------------------------
3541 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3542 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3545 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3546 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3547 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3550 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3553 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3556 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3559 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3560 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3561 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3565 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3567 * Support of playlist group announcement
3570 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3571 --------------------------------
3574 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3575 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3576 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3577 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3578 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3579 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3582 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3583 (Stream your desktop)
3584 * Improved DVD support:
3585 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3586 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3587 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3588 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3589 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3590 (selection of titles/chapters).
3593 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3594 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3595 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3596 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3597 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3598 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3599 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3600 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3601 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3602 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3605 * G.726 audio support
3606 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3607 * MPEG-4 text support
3608 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3609 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3610 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3614 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3615 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3616 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3617 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3618 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3619 * DVB subtitles encoder
3620 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3621 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3623 * Text track muxing for mp4
3624 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3625 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3626 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3627 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3628 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3629 * Improved ASF muxer
3631 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3632 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3633 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3636 * New audio equalizer filter
3637 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3638 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3639 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3640 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3643 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3644 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3645 with support for effects.
3646 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3647 - New filters can be streamed.
3648 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3649 - Centralized scaling and blending
3651 - "time", to display current time
3652 - "marq", to display a marquee
3655 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3656 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3657 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3658 * A few skins2 improvements
3659 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3660 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3661 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3662 * Improved CORBA control module
3665 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3666 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3667 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3670 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3671 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3672 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3675 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3676 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3677 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3678 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3679 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3682 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3685 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3686 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3689 * Server/client network synchronization module
3690 * VBrick streams fully supported
3691 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3695 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3696 --------------------------------
3699 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3700 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3701 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3702 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3705 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3706 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3707 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3708 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3709 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3710 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3711 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3714 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3715 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3716 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3717 * Improved directory access module.
3718 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3719 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3720 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3721 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3722 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3725 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3726 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3727 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3730 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3731 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3732 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3735 * Improved session announcement system.
3736 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3737 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3738 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3739 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3740 * Improved transrater.
3741 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3742 * New configuration system.
3743 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3746 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3747 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3748 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3749 * Supports scheduling.
3750 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3751 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3754 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3755 - Ability to embed video output.
3756 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3757 - Lots of improvements.
3758 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3759 - New design and set of icons.
3760 - Ability to embed video output.
3761 - Support for hotkeys.
3762 - Support for bookmarks.
3764 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3765 - Better hotkeys handling.
3768 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3769 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3770 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3771 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3774 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3775 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3776 * Improved Windows installer.
3782 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3783 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3786 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3787 ---------------------------------
3790 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3791 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3794 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3795 --------------------------------
3798 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3799 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3802 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3803 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3804 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3805 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3808 * Internal improvments
3809 * Improved import/export
3812 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3814 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3815 small and strange formats.
3817 * New MOD audio demux.
3818 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3819 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3820 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3821 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3824 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3825 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3826 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3832 * New opengl video output plugin.
3835 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3836 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3839 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3840 --------------------------------
3843 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3844 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3845 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3846 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3847 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3848 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3849 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3850 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3853 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3858 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3859 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3860 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3861 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3862 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3863 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3864 * Better Icecast support.
3865 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3866 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3869 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3870 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3871 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3872 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3873 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3874 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3875 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3878 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3879 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3880 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3881 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3882 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3883 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3884 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3885 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3886 * Preliminary RTP support.
3887 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3892 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3893 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3895 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3896 - Improvements and help in preferences
3897 - New streaming wizard
3898 - Revised Disc Open menu
3900 - Improvements of the standard pages
3901 - Support for new commands
3902 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3905 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3906 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3909 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3910 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3911 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3912 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3913 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3914 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3915 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3916 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3917 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3920 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3922 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3923 * Support for Panther.
3924 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3925 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3928 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3929 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3930 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3931 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3932 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3933 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3934 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3935 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3938 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3939 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3940 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3943 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3946 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3947 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3948 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3949 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3952 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3953 --------------------------------
3956 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3959 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3960 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3963 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3964 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3967 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3970 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3971 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3974 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3977 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3980 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3981 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3985 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3986 --------------------------------
3989 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3990 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3994 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3995 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3996 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3998 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3999 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4002 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4005 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4008 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4009 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4013 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4014 --------------------------------
4017 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4018 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4022 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4023 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4024 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4025 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4026 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4029 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4030 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4031 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4034 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4035 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4036 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4039 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4040 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4041 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4042 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4043 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4046 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4047 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4048 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4051 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4054 * Improved build system.
4055 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4056 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4057 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4058 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4061 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4062 --------------------------------
4065 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4068 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4069 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4070 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4071 * Video 4 Linux support
4072 * CD Digital Audio support
4073 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4076 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4077 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4078 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4079 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4082 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4083 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4084 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4085 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4086 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4087 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4088 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4091 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4092 * New HTTP remote control interface
4095 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4096 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4097 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4098 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4099 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4102 * New reset option for the preferences
4103 * You can set your language in the prefences
4104 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4105 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4106 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4107 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4110 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4111 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4112 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4115 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4116 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4117 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4118 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4119 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4120 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4121 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4122 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4123 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4124 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4127 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4128 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4129 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4130 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4131 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4132 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4133 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4136 * Interface localization
4137 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4138 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4139 * New full-featured Preferences window
4142 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4143 --------------------------------
4146 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4147 * support for skins at the interface level
4148 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4149 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4150 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4151 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4152 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4155 * fixed HTTP redirects
4156 * support for opening an entire directory
4157 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4158 * new video4linux access plug-in
4159 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4162 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4163 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4164 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4167 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4168 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4169 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4170 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4171 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4172 * new codec for raw I420 video
4173 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4176 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4177 (although it still misses some important features)
4178 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4181 * new HTTP output support
4182 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4183 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4186 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4189 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4192 * reorderable playlist
4193 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4194 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4195 * support for mono audio output devices
4196 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4197 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4198 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4199 * the messages window remembers more lines
4200 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4201 * http and ogg stream output options
4202 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4205 * new skinnable interface
4206 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4208 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4209 * support for FLAC audio format
4210 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4212 * network tab in the interface
4213 * "apply" handling in preferences
4216 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4217 ---------------------------------
4220 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4221 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4222 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4223 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4225 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4226 * DTS S/PDIF support
4229 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4230 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4231 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4232 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4235 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4236 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4239 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4242 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4245 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4247 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4248 * rc interface is now fully useable
4249 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4252 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4253 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4254 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4255 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4256 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4258 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4259 * support for mouse gestures
4260 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4263 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4264 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4267 * improved ID3 tag detection
4268 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4269 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4270 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4272 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4275 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4276 ---------------------------------
4279 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4280 English was set as the preferred language
4283 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4284 --------------------------------
4287 * new mouse gesture interface
4288 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4292 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4293 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4294 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4297 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4298 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4302 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4305 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4306 without the user consent
4309 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4311 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4312 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4313 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4316 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4317 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4318 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4319 * playlist enhancements
4320 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4321 * new step forward/step backward commands
4322 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4323 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4324 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4327 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4328 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4329 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4332 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4333 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4336 * native video output is working again
4337 * only commandline interface support
4338 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4341 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4342 --------------------------------
4345 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4346 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4347 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4348 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4349 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4350 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4351 and A/52 streams are supported)
4352 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4357 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4358 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4359 * VCD entry points support
4360 * VCD image file support
4363 * support for *.asf format
4364 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4365 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4366 * support for ogg encapsulation
4367 * support for raw DV format
4368 * support for *.wav format
4369 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4372 Stream discovery & playlists:
4373 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4374 * support for .m3u file format
4375 * support for .asx file format
4376 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4379 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4380 (only available with the .avi demux)
4381 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4382 * support for raw PCM data
4383 * support for Cinepak video codec
4384 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4385 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4386 * support for Xvid codec
4387 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4388 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4389 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4391 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4393 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4396 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4399 * new WxWindows interface
4400 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4401 device and the channels configuration
4402 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4403 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4404 format that VLC can play
4405 * new swedish translation
4406 * enhancements of the playlist window
4407 * new messages window to see debug info
4408 * fixed a few crashes
4411 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4412 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4413 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4414 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working