3 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
4 --------------------------------------------------------
7 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
10 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
11 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
12 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
13 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
14 * Improved subtitles encoding support
17 * Cook (Real audio) support
19 Playlist / Services discovery :
23 * New video filters : magnify, gradient and edge detection
26 * System to inform the user and request information
31 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
33 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
34 - Improved playlist handling
35 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
37 - Overlay control panel
40 - Much improved default interface pages
43 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
49 * Ability to log to syslog
50 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
53 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
56 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
57 ---------------------------------
60 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
61 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
64 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
65 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
68 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
71 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
72 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
78 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
80 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
81 --------------------------------
84 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
88 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
89 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
90 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
93 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
94 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
95 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
96 * GnomeVFS input module
97 * Support for RTP packet reordering
98 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
101 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
102 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
103 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
106 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
107 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
113 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
114 Mixer and Dolby Surround
117 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
118 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
119 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
122 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
124 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
125 - New extended controls panel
126 - New bookmarks window
127 - Fixed playlist sorting
128 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
130 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
131 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
132 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
133 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
137 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
138 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
140 - Include macro to include other files
144 * Should now work outside IE as well
147 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
150 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
151 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
154 The following languages were added:
159 The following languages were re-added:
162 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
163 --------------------------------
166 * Rewrite of the playlist
168 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
169 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
170 * Preferences improvements:
171 - New organization, designed to improve usability
172 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
174 * Core image manipulation support
175 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
176 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
177 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
178 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
179 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
180 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
181 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
182 now separated by ':' instead of ','
183 * Access filter architecture
184 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
185 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
189 * Support for SOCKS proxy
190 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
191 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
192 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
193 * Better support for Kasenna streams
194 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
195 * Massive Matroska improvements
196 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
198 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
199 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
200 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
201 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
202 * Support for FTP over IPv6
205 * Dirac decoder and encoder
206 * PNG decoder/encoder
207 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
208 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
211 * New Record and Timeshift filters
214 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
215 * Brand new SAP module
216 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
217 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
218 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
219 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
220 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
221 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
225 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
228 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
229 * Image file video output (png)
230 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
231 * Improvements to wall video filter
232 * Support for font color and opacity
238 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
239 - Seeking support in VoD streams
240 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
244 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
245 - Improved preferences
246 - Improvements to the wizard
247 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
249 - Redesigned playlist
250 - Improved preferences
252 - Support for multiple actions
255 - Support for the new playlist system
257 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
260 * Screensaver disabling fix
261 * DirectShow tuner configuration
262 * Support for no-decoration windows
265 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
266 * The OpenGL video output is back
267 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
268 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
269 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
270 is not yet available in the new module
271 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
274 * Support for single-buffered overlay
283 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
286 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
289 The following languages were added:
295 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
296 -----------------------------------------------------
299 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
300 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
303 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
304 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
305 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
308 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
311 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
314 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
317 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
318 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
319 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
323 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
325 * Support of playlist group announcement
327 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
328 -----------------------------------------------------
331 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
332 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
333 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
334 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
335 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
336 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
339 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
340 (Stream your desktop)
341 * Improved DVD support:
342 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
343 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
344 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
345 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
346 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
347 (selection of titles/chapters).
350 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
351 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
352 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
353 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
354 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
355 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
356 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
357 * Improved Ogg demuxer
358 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
359 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
362 * G.726 audio support
363 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
364 * MPEG-4 text support
365 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
366 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
367 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
371 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
372 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
373 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
374 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
375 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
376 * DVB subtitles encoder
377 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
378 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
380 * Text track muxing for mp4
381 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
382 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
383 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
384 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
385 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
388 * H.263 RTP streaming support
389 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
390 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
393 * New audio equalizer filter
394 * Very trivial volume normalizer
395 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
396 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
397 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
400 * Roku HD1000 Video output
401 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
402 with support for effects.
403 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
404 - New filters can be streamed.
405 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
406 - Centralized scaling and blending
408 - "time", to display current time
409 - "marq", to display a marquee
412 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
413 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
414 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
415 * A few skins2 improvements
416 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
417 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
418 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
419 * Improved CORBA control module
422 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
423 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
424 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
427 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
428 * Experimental SVG rendering module
429 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
432 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
433 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
434 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
435 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
436 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
439 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
442 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
443 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
446 * Server/client network synchronization module
447 * VBrick streams fully supported
448 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
451 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
452 --------------------------------
455 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
456 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
457 * Improved HTTP daemon.
458 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
461 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
462 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
463 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
464 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
465 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
466 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
467 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
470 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
471 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
472 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
473 * Improved directory access module.
474 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
475 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
476 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
477 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
478 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
481 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
482 * mmsh streaming fixes.
483 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
486 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
487 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
488 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
491 * Improved session announcement system.
492 * Minimize threads usage by default.
493 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
494 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
495 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
496 * Improved transrater.
497 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
498 * New configuration system.
499 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
502 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
503 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
504 * Supports live streams and VoD.
505 * Supports scheduling.
506 * Telnet interface for vlm.
507 * HTTP interface for vlm.
510 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
511 - Ability to embed video output.
512 - Support for bitmap fonts.
513 - Lots of improvements.
514 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
515 - New design and set of icons.
516 - Ability to embed video output.
517 - Support for hotkeys.
518 - Support for bookmarks.
520 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
521 - Better hotkeys handling.
524 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
525 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
526 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
527 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
530 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
531 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
532 * Improved Windows installer.
538 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
539 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
541 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
542 ---------------------------------
545 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
546 * Playing MOD files is working now.
549 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
550 ---------------------------------
553 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
554 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
557 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
558 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
559 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
560 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
563 * Internal improvments
564 * Improved import/export
567 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
569 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
570 small and strange formats.
572 * New MOD audio demux.
573 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
574 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
575 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
576 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
579 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
580 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
581 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
587 * New opengl video output plugin.
590 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
591 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
593 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
594 ---------------------------------
597 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
598 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
599 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
600 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
601 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
602 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
603 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
604 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
607 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
612 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
613 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
614 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
615 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
616 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
617 * Reworked DVB tuning.
618 * Better Icecast support.
619 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
620 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
623 * Support for Theora video encoding.
624 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
625 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
626 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
627 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
628 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
629 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
632 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
633 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
634 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
635 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
636 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
637 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
638 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
639 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
640 * Preliminary RTP support.
641 * Fixes to SAP announces.
646 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
647 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
649 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
650 - Improvements and help in preferences
651 - New streaming wizard
652 - Revised Disc Open menu
654 - Improvements of the standard pages
655 - Support for new commands
656 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
659 * Many fixes to the SAP module
660 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
663 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
664 * Text subtitles autodetection.
665 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
666 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
667 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
668 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
669 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
670 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
671 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
674 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
676 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
677 * Support for Panther.
678 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
679 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
682 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
683 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
684 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
685 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
686 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
687 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
688 * Multimonitor support (untested).
689 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
692 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
693 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
694 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
697 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
700 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
701 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
702 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
703 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
705 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
706 ---------------------------------
709 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
712 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
713 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
716 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
717 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
720 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
723 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
724 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
727 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
730 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
733 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
734 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
737 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
738 ---------------------------------
741 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
742 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
746 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
747 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
748 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
750 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
751 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
754 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
757 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
760 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
761 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
764 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
765 ---------------------------------
768 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
769 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
773 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
774 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
775 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
776 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
777 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
780 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
781 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
782 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
785 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
786 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
787 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
790 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
791 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
792 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
793 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
794 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
797 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
798 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
799 * A new CORBA control plugin.
802 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
805 * Improved build system.
806 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
807 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
808 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
809 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
812 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
813 ---------------------------------
816 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
819 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
820 * Fixed large file support on Windows
821 * Video 4 Linux support
822 * CD Digital Audio support
823 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
826 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
827 * Support for OpenDML avi files
828 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
829 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
832 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
833 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
834 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
835 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
836 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
837 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
838 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
841 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
842 * New HTTP remote control interface
845 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
846 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
847 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
848 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
851 * New reset option for the preferences
852 * You can set your language in the prefences
853 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
854 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
855 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
856 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
859 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
860 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
861 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
864 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
865 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
866 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
867 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
868 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
869 * New icons by Davor Orel.
870 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
871 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
872 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
873 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
876 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
877 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
878 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
879 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
880 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
881 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
882 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
885 * Interface localization
886 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
887 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
888 * New full-featured Preferences window
890 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
891 ---------------------------------
894 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
895 * support for skins at the interface level
896 * new OSD module using Freetype2
897 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
898 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
899 input level before dropping out of date frames.
900 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
903 * fixed HTTP redirects
904 * support for opening an entire directory
905 * EOF should be detected more reliably
906 * new video4linux access plug-in
907 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
910 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
911 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
912 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
915 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
916 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
917 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
918 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
919 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
920 * new codec for raw I420 video
921 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
924 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
925 (although it still misses some important features)
926 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
929 * new HTTP output support
930 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
931 * fixed AV synchronization issues
934 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
937 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
940 * reorderable playlist
941 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
942 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
943 * support for mono audio output devices
944 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
945 * fixed several cosmetic issues
946 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
947 * the messages window remembers more lines
948 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
949 * http and ogg stream output options
950 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
953 * new skinnable interface
954 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
956 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
957 * support for FLAC audio format
958 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
960 * network tab in the interface
961 * "apply" handling in preferences
964 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
965 ---------------------------------
968 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
969 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
970 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
971 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
973 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
977 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
978 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
979 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
980 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
983 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
984 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
987 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
990 * fixed the GNU-pth support
993 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
995 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
996 * rc interface is now fully useable
997 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1000 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1001 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1002 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1003 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1004 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1006 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1007 * support for mouse gestures
1008 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1011 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1012 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1015 * improved ID3 tag detection
1016 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1017 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1018 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1020 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1023 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1024 ---------------------------------
1027 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1028 English was set as the preferred language
1031 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1032 --------------------------------
1035 * new mouse gesture interface
1036 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1040 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1041 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1042 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1045 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1046 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1050 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1053 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1054 without the user consent
1057 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1059 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1060 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1061 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1064 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1065 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1066 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1067 * playlist enhancements
1068 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1069 * new step forward/step backward commands
1070 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1071 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1072 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1075 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1076 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1077 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1080 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1081 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1084 * native video output is working again
1085 * only commandline interface support
1086 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1089 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1090 --------------------------------
1093 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1094 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1095 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1096 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1097 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1098 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1099 and A/52 streams are supported)
1100 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1105 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1106 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1107 * VCD entry points support
1108 * VCD image file support
1111 * support for *.asf format
1112 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1113 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1114 * support for ogg encapsulation
1115 * support for raw DV format
1116 * support for *.wav format
1117 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1120 Stream discovery & playlists:
1121 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1122 * support for .m3u file format
1123 * support for .asx file format
1124 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1127 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1128 (only available with the .avi demux)
1129 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1130 * support for raw PCM data
1131 * support for Cinepak video codec
1132 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1133 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1134 * support for Xvid codec
1135 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1136 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1137 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1139 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1141 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1144 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1147 * new WxWindows interface
1148 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1149 device and the channels configuration
1150 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1151 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1152 format that VLC can play
1153 * new swedish translation
1154 * enhancements of the playlist window
1155 * new messages window to see debug info
1156 * fixed a few crashes
1159 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1160 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1161 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1162 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working