1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
9 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
10 * New SMB access module using libdsm
11 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
12 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
13 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
14 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
15 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
16 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
17 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
18 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
19 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
20 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
21 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
22 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
25 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
26 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
27 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
28 * Support for Daala video
29 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
30 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
31 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
32 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
33 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
34 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
35 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
36 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
39 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
40 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
41 * Support Daala in Ogg
42 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
43 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
44 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
45 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
46 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
47 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
48 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
49 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
50 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
53 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
56 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
57 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
60 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
61 * Wayland shell surface window provider
62 * Wayland shared memory video output
63 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
64 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
65 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
66 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
67 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
70 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
71 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
74 * Chromecast output module
75 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
78 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
81 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
82 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
86 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
87 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
90 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
91 * Port to Yosemite X.10
94 * Batch convert support
97 * Support key accelerators
100 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
101 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
102 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
103 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
104 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
105 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
106 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
107 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
108 identifier (if there is one available)
109 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
112 * Support for the SystemD Journal
113 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
114 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
115 * New Android module for logging
118 * remove langfromtelx
119 * remove ZPL playlist format
122 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
123 --------------------------------
126 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
127 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
130 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
131 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
132 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
133 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
136 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
137 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
138 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
139 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
141 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
142 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
143 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
146 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
147 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
148 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
149 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
150 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
151 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
152 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
153 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
154 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
155 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
156 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
157 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
158 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
159 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
160 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
161 * New jpeg image decoder
162 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
163 * New SVG image decoder
164 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
165 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
166 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
169 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
170 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
171 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
172 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
173 * New png image encoder using libpng
176 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
177 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
178 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
179 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
180 synchronization and tracks exclusion
181 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
182 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
183 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
184 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
185 * Support Opus in MKV
187 * Basic support for WebVTT
188 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
189 * Support HDPR TS files
190 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
191 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
192 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
193 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
194 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
195 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
196 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
197 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
198 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
199 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
200 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
201 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
204 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
205 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
206 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
207 * New Android native window provider module
208 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
209 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
210 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
213 * New Oldmovie effect filter
214 * New VHS effect filter
215 * New Freeze effect filter
216 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
217 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
218 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
221 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
222 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
223 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
224 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
225 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
226 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
229 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
230 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
232 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
235 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
236 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
237 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
238 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
239 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
240 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
241 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
242 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
243 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
245 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
246 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
247 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
250 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
251 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
254 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
255 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
258 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
259 * Add record button in Qt menus
260 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
261 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
262 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
265 * Support for OS X Yosemite
266 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
267 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
268 * Fixes for advanced preferences
269 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
270 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
271 * Option to increase playlist font size
272 * Improved crash log reporting
275 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
276 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
277 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
278 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
281 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
284 * iOS video output: use ios2
285 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
286 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
289 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
290 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
291 * Update of all translations:
292 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
293 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
294 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
295 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
296 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
297 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
298 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
301 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
302 --------------------------------
308 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
309 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
310 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
311 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
312 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
313 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
314 * Fix potential crash in zip access
315 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
318 * Update translations and greek encoding
321 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
322 --------------------------------
325 * Fix compilation on OS/2
328 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
330 Mac OS X audio output:
331 * Fix channel ordering
332 * Increase the buffersize
335 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
336 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
337 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
340 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
343 * Correctly support video-on-top
344 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
345 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
348 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
351 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
352 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
355 * Update British English
358 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
359 --------------------------------
362 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
365 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
368 * Fix DVD playback regression
369 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
370 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
373 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
374 --------------------------------
377 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
378 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
381 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
382 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
383 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
386 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
387 by updating codec libraries
388 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
389 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
390 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
393 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
394 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
395 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
396 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
399 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
400 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
403 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
404 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
405 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
406 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
407 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
410 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
411 * Fix record file names
414 * Fix minimal size possible on start
415 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
416 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
417 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
418 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
421 * Fix album art display on Windows
424 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
425 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
426 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
427 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
428 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
429 and Simplified Chinese translations
430 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
433 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
434 --------------------------------
437 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
438 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
439 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
440 audio devices on OS X
441 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
442 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
445 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
446 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
449 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
450 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
453 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
456 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
457 * Improve A-B loop control
458 * Fix album art update when changing media
461 * Add a language option in the interface
462 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
463 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
464 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
465 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
466 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
467 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
468 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
471 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
474 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
475 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
476 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
477 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
480 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
481 --------------------------------
484 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
486 * Fix some subtitles track selection
489 * VP9 support in WebM
490 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
491 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
494 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
495 * Support Speex in ogg files
496 * Fix some .mov playlists support
497 * Support Alac in mkv
498 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
499 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
502 * Fix DVB options parsing
503 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
504 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
507 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
508 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
511 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
512 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
515 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
516 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
517 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
518 * Fix play after drag'n drop
519 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
522 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
523 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
526 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
527 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
530 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
531 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
532 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
533 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
534 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
535 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
536 * Improves interface resizings
539 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
540 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
541 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
542 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
543 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
547 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
548 --------------------------------
551 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
552 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
553 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
554 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
555 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
557 3rd party libraries (contrib):
558 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
561 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
562 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
563 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
564 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
565 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
568 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
569 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
573 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
574 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
575 * Support for Ulead DV audio
576 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
577 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
578 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
579 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
580 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
581 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
582 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
583 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
584 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
585 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
588 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
589 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
590 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
593 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
594 remove support for previous OS X releases
595 * Major improvements in DASH support
596 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
597 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
598 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
599 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
600 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
601 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
602 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
603 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
604 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
605 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
606 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
609 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
610 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
611 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
612 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
613 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
614 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
615 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
616 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
617 * Support for more MJPEG streams
618 * Add support for liveleak streams
619 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
620 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
621 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
624 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
625 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
626 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
627 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
628 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
629 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
630 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
631 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
632 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
633 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
634 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
637 * New remapping channel filter
638 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
639 * New VSXu visualization plugin
640 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
641 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
642 * New gain audio filter
645 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
646 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
647 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
648 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
649 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
650 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
651 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
652 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
653 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
656 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
657 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
658 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
659 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
660 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
661 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
662 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
665 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
666 * Options support for AVIO output module
667 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
668 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
669 * Livehttp stream encryption support
670 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
671 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
674 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
677 * configurable password for the HTTP server
678 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
679 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
680 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
681 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
682 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
683 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
684 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
688 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
691 * Add support for multiple video outputs
692 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
694 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
695 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
696 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
697 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
698 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
699 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
700 VLC's internal volume level
701 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
703 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
704 selection and to manage the list of presets
705 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
706 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
707 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
708 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
709 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
710 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
711 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
712 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
713 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
714 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
716 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
717 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
718 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
719 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
720 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
721 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
722 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
723 3rd party applications
724 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
725 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
726 (system-wide settings)
727 * Add support for the Video Title option
728 * Add support for the Boss Key
729 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
730 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
733 * Partial support for Qt5.0
734 * Menus modifications and improvements
735 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
736 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
737 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
738 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
739 * EPG display fixes and improvements
740 * Add SD pixmap sources
741 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
742 * Display playlist total duration
743 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
744 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
745 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
750 * Extend sliders, offsets options
751 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
752 * Numerous fixes and improvements
753 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
756 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
757 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
758 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
759 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
760 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
761 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
762 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
763 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
764 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
765 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
768 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
769 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
770 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
771 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
772 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
773 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
775 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
776 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
777 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
778 * Broken crop video filter
780 * OSD parser and menu
781 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
782 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
783 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
784 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
788 * Update of all translations
791 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
792 --------------------------------
795 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
796 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
799 * Fix modplug security issues
802 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
803 --------------------------------
807 * Fix crash in QTsound
808 * Fix screen mouse file location
809 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
812 * Fix use after free in sgimb
813 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
816 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
819 * Fix interface crashes
820 * Fix autostart playback option
821 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
824 * update Welsh translation
825 * New Kannada translation
828 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
829 --------------------------------
832 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
833 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
837 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
840 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
843 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
846 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
850 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
853 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
856 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
857 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
858 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
861 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
862 --------------------------------
865 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
868 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
871 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
872 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
873 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
874 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
875 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
876 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
879 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
880 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
881 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
882 * 3rd party codecs updates
885 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
886 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
887 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
888 in the advanced preferences panel
889 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
890 * Fix crash within the video output code
891 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
892 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
893 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
894 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
896 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
899 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
902 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
903 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
906 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
909 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
910 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
911 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
912 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
913 Dutch, Danish, translations
914 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
917 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
924 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
925 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
926 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
929 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
930 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
931 * Fix koreus lua parser
932 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
933 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
934 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
935 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
938 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
939 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
942 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
945 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
946 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
947 * Fix Time counter UI look
948 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
951 * Fix https streaming
954 * Fix audio and video track selection:
955 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
956 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
959 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
960 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
961 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
962 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
963 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
966 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
967 --------------------------------
970 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
971 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
972 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
973 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
974 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
975 during playback on Mac OS X
978 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
979 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
980 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
983 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
984 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
985 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
986 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
987 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
990 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
991 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
992 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
993 * Support Youtube live streams
996 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
999 * Fix media info dialog update
1000 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1001 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1002 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1003 * Fix album art display at start
1006 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1007 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1008 * Fix menus display and behavior
1009 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1010 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1011 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1012 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1013 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1014 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1015 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1018 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1019 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1020 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1021 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1022 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1023 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1024 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1025 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1026 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1029 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1030 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1031 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1032 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1033 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1036 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1037 --------------------------------
1040 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1043 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1044 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1047 * Add GateKeeper support
1048 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1049 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1050 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1053 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1056 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1057 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1058 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1059 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1060 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1063 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1064 --------------------------------
1067 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1068 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1069 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1070 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1071 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1072 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1073 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1074 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1075 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1076 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1077 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1081 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1082 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1083 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1084 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1085 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1086 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1087 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1088 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1089 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1090 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1091 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1092 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1095 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1096 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1098 * Fix MP3 free format support
1101 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1102 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1103 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1104 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1105 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1108 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1109 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1111 Audio filters and output:
1112 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1113 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1114 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1115 * Do not apply volume in file output
1116 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1117 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1120 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1121 the persistant media library
1122 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1123 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1124 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1125 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1126 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1127 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1128 press on the Play/Pause button
1129 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1130 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1131 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1132 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1133 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1134 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1135 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1136 Synchronization panel
1137 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1138 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1139 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1140 * Fix crashes on exit
1141 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1143 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1144 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1145 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1146 automatically reset on the first launch.
1147 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1148 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1149 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1152 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1153 * Fixes for icecast SD
1156 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1157 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1158 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1159 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1160 * Fix tags and file names display
1161 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1164 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1165 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1168 * Fix display of some buttons
1169 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1170 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1173 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1174 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1175 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1178 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1179 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1180 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1181 Thai translations update
1182 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1185 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1186 --------------------------------
1189 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1190 * fix the samba module compilation
1191 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1192 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1193 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1194 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1197 * Support for MXPEG files
1198 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1199 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1202 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1203 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1204 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1207 * Fix ogm header creation
1210 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1211 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1214 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1215 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1216 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1217 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1220 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1223 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1224 * allow to hide the sidebar
1225 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1226 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1227 * noticebly faster launch time
1228 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1229 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1230 * improve track synchronization panel
1231 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1232 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1235 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1236 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1237 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1238 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1241 * fix for menus display
1242 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1243 * documentation update
1246 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1247 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1250 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1251 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1252 * Update Jamendo selections
1256 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1257 * fix a crash on VLM close
1260 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1261 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1262 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1263 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1266 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1269 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1270 ---------------------------------
1273 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1274 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1275 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1276 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1277 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1278 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1279 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1280 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1281 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1282 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1283 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1284 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1285 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1286 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1287 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1288 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1289 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1290 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1291 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1292 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1293 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1294 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1295 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1296 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1297 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1298 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1300 Important changes for packagers:
1301 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1302 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1303 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1304 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1305 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1306 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1307 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1308 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1309 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1310 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1313 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1314 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1315 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1316 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1317 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1318 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1319 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1322 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1323 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1324 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1325 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1326 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1327 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1328 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1329 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1330 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1331 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1332 * PulseAudio audio input support
1333 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1334 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1335 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1336 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1337 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1338 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1339 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1340 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1343 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1344 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1345 are notably concerned.
1346 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1347 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1348 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1349 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1350 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1351 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1352 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1353 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1354 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1355 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1356 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1357 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1358 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1359 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1360 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1363 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1364 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1365 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1366 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1367 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1368 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1369 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1370 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1371 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1372 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1373 * Improved support of tracker files
1374 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1377 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1378 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1379 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1380 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1381 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1382 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1383 and important cleanups and optimisations
1384 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1385 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1386 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1387 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1388 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1389 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1390 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1391 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1392 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1393 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1394 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1395 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1396 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1397 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1398 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1399 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1400 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1401 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1402 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1403 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1404 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1407 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1408 * New video output for iOS platform
1409 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1410 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1411 * Various vmem improvements
1412 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1413 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1414 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1415 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1416 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1417 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1419 Audio Output and Filters:
1420 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1421 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1422 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1423 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1424 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1425 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1426 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1427 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1428 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1429 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1432 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1433 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1434 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1435 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1436 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1437 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1438 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1439 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1440 * New anti-flickering filter
1441 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1442 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1443 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1444 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1445 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1446 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1447 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1450 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1451 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1452 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1453 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1454 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1455 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1456 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1457 * Major rework of VoD support
1458 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1459 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1460 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1461 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1462 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1463 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1464 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1465 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1466 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1467 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1470 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1471 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1474 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1475 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1476 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1477 list of available audio and video filters
1478 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1479 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1480 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1483 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1484 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1485 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1486 * id3tag: use taglib
1487 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1488 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1489 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1490 * removal of the noise filter
1491 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1492 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1493 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1494 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1497 * Update of translations for most languages.
1498 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1501 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1502 ----------------------------------
1505 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1506 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1509 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1510 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1513 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1514 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1515 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1518 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1521 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1522 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1525 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1528 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1529 ----------------------------------
1532 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1533 including support for OS X Lion
1534 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1535 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1538 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1541 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1542 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1543 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1546 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1549 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1550 ----------------------------------
1553 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1554 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1557 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1558 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1559 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1560 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1561 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1563 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1564 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1565 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1567 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1568 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1571 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1574 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1577 * Fix quitting on Linux
1578 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1582 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1585 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1588 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1589 ---------------------------------
1591 Windows and Mac OS X:
1592 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1595 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1596 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1599 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1602 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1605 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1607 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1608 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1610 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1611 * RTP output and XML export
1612 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1616 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1617 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1618 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1619 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1622 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1623 --------------------------------
1625 Windows and Mac OS X:
1626 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1629 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1632 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1633 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1634 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1635 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1636 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1637 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1640 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1641 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1645 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1646 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1647 * New Luganda Translation
1650 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1651 --------------------------------
1654 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1657 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1658 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1659 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1660 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1663 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1665 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1666 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1667 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1668 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1669 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1670 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1671 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1672 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1674 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1675 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1676 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1677 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1678 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1679 * Configure and build system improvements
1680 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1683 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1684 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1685 * New icelandic translation
1688 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1689 --------------------------------
1692 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1693 #234484 and #260719.
1696 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1697 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1698 and stability reasons
1701 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1705 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1708 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1709 ----------------------------------
1712 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1715 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1716 ---------------------------------
1719 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1720 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1721 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1722 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1725 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1728 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1729 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1730 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1731 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1734 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1735 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1736 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1738 Subtitles and renderer:
1739 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1740 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1741 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1742 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1743 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1746 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1747 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1748 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1749 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1752 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1753 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1755 Miscellaneous fixes:
1756 * KDE device solid actions
1758 * Transcode integer overflow
1759 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1760 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1763 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1764 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1765 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1768 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1769 ----------------------------------
1772 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1776 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1779 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1782 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1783 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1784 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1785 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1788 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1792 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1795 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1798 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1799 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1801 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1805 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1806 * Miscellaneous fixes
1809 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1810 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1811 French and Ukrainian
1812 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1813 * New Asturian translation
1816 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1817 ----------------------------------
1820 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1822 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1825 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1828 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1829 * Various fixes for Windows
1832 * New Armenian translation
1833 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1834 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1837 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1838 --------------------------------
1841 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1842 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1843 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1846 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1847 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1850 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1851 --------------------------------
1853 Access and demuxers:
1854 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1855 * fix for podcasts parsing
1856 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1859 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1860 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1863 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1864 * fix m3u playlists exports
1867 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1870 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1873 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1876 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1879 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1882 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1883 --------------------------------
1886 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1887 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1890 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1891 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1894 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1895 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1896 * fix console output encoding
1898 Interface and extensions:
1899 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1900 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1903 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1904 --------------------------------
1907 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1908 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1909 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1910 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1911 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1912 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1913 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1914 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1915 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1916 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1917 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1918 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1919 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1920 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1921 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1922 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1926 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1927 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1928 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1929 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1930 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1933 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1936 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1937 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1938 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1942 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1945 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1946 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1947 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1950 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1951 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1952 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1953 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1956 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1957 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1960 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1961 --------------------------------
1963 Important changes for users:
1964 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1965 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1967 Important changes for packagers:
1968 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1969 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1970 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1971 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1972 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1974 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1976 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1977 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1978 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1979 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1980 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1983 * Support for the sftp protocol
1984 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1985 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1986 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1987 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1988 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1991 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1992 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1993 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1995 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1996 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1997 * Invmem module improvements
1998 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1999 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2000 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2001 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2002 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2003 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2004 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2005 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2006 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2007 * Support for VP8 codec
2008 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2011 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2012 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2013 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2014 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2015 * Various EGP improvements
2016 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2017 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2020 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2021 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2022 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2023 * Podcast images are now displayed
2026 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2027 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2028 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2029 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2030 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2031 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2032 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2033 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2034 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2035 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2036 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2039 * New content extensions lua framework
2042 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2043 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2044 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2045 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2046 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2047 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2048 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2051 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2052 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2053 * Service discovery based on libudev
2054 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2057 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2058 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2059 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2060 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2061 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2062 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2063 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2066 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2067 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2068 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2071 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2073 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2074 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2077 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2080 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2081 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2082 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2083 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2084 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2085 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2086 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2089 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2090 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2093 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2094 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2095 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2099 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2100 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2101 * Improved Solaris port
2104 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2105 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2108 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2109 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2110 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2111 * transrate: broken since too long
2112 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2113 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2114 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2115 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2116 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2117 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2118 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2119 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2120 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2121 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2122 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2123 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2124 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2125 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2128 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2129 --------------------------------
2132 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2134 Decoders/Packetizers:
2135 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2138 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2139 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2140 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2141 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2142 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2145 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2146 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2149 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2150 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2153 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2154 and Walloon translations updated
2155 * Sinhala translation started
2158 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2159 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2162 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2163 --------------------------------
2166 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2167 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2170 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2173 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2174 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2177 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2178 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2179 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2180 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2183 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2184 --------------------------------
2187 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2188 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2191 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2192 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2195 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2196 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2199 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2202 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2203 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2206 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2207 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2210 * New Walloon translation
2211 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2214 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2215 --------------------------------
2218 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2219 regressions in most popular drivers
2220 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2223 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2224 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2225 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2228 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2229 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2232 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2233 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2234 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2235 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2236 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2239 * New udev module for linux
2242 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2245 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2248 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2249 --------------------------------
2252 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2253 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2254 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2257 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2258 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2261 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2262 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2265 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2268 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2269 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2270 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2271 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2274 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2275 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2276 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2277 - no support for Goom and SDL
2278 - limited text rendering support
2279 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2282 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2283 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2284 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2285 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2286 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2287 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2288 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2289 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2290 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2294 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2297 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2300 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2301 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2302 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2303 Arabic and French translation updates
2306 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2307 --------------------------------
2310 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2311 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2312 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2313 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2314 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2315 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2318 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2319 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2320 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2323 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2324 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2325 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2328 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2331 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2332 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2335 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2336 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2337 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2338 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2339 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2340 * Fix various crashes
2343 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2345 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2349 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2350 ---------------------------------
2354 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2355 See 'Access:' for more info.
2356 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2359 * Instantaneous pausing
2360 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2361 * Finer speed control
2362 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2363 * Timeshift for most medias
2364 * RTSP trickplay support
2365 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2368 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2369 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2370 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2371 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2372 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2373 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2374 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2375 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2376 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2377 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2380 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2381 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2382 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2383 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2384 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2385 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2386 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2389 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2390 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2393 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2394 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2395 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2396 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2397 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2398 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2399 * DVB scanning on linux
2400 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2401 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2402 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2403 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2404 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2405 * MTP device access on Unix
2406 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2407 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2410 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2411 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2412 Windows and Mac OS X.
2415 * Export the playlist in HTML
2416 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2417 * Better metadata handling and reading
2419 Linux/Windows interface:
2420 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2421 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2422 * Recently played items list
2423 * Interface toolbar customizations
2424 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2425 - More menus actions
2426 - Finer speed slider
2427 - Improvements on many dialogs
2428 - New dialog for plugins listing
2429 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2430 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2431 * Better integration in GTK environments
2434 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2435 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2436 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2437 * Additional usability improvements
2440 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2441 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2442 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2443 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2444 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2447 * New Maemo port with:
2448 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2449 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2452 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2455 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2456 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2457 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2458 * Support for latest iSight models
2461 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2462 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2465 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2466 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2467 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2468 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2469 The old image video output has been removed.
2470 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2471 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2474 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2482 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2483 --------------------------------------
2489 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2490 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2491 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2492 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2493 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2494 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2495 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2497 Various fixes to the following modules:
2500 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2501 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2502 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2504 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2509 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2510 ---------------------------------
2513 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2514 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2517 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2518 ---------------------------------
2521 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2524 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2527 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2528 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2529 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2530 main controller window.
2531 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2534 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2539 * Updates of other localizations
2542 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2543 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2544 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2545 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2546 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2549 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2550 ---------------------------------
2553 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2555 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2558 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2559 --------------------------------
2564 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2565 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2568 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2569 --------------------------------
2571 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2572 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2575 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2578 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2579 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2582 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2583 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2586 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2587 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2588 * Various fixed in playlist
2591 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2594 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2597 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2598 ------------------------------------
2600 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2601 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2604 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2605 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2606 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2609 * Stability fix for the video output.
2612 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2613 --------------------------------
2616 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2617 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2618 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2619 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2620 * Fixed update system bugs
2621 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2624 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2625 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2626 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2627 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2628 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2629 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2630 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2631 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2632 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2633 modern Mac OS X versions
2636 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2637 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2639 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2640 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2643 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2644 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2645 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2646 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2647 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2648 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2651 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2652 --------------------------------
2654 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2655 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2656 * Multiple bugfixes.
2659 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2660 --------------------------------
2662 * Multiple bug fixes.
2665 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2666 ---------------------------------
2670 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2671 recent to work correctly
2672 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2673 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2674 edit the ".hosts" file.
2675 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2676 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2677 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2678 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2679 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2680 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2681 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2682 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2683 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2684 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2685 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2686 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2687 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2688 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2689 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2690 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2691 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2692 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2693 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2694 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2695 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2696 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2697 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2698 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2699 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2700 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2701 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2702 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2703 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2704 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2705 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2706 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2707 and postproc modules.
2708 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2709 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2710 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2711 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2713 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2714 filter. For example:
2715 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2716 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2718 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2719 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2725 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2727 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2728 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2731 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2732 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2734 * Shoutcast TV listings
2735 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2737 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2738 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2740 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2743 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2744 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2745 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2746 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2747 * JACK audio input support
2748 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2749 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2750 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2751 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2752 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2753 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2754 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2755 (available as a separate download).
2756 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2757 * RTMP input support
2758 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2759 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2760 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2762 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2763 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2766 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2767 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2768 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2769 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2771 * APEv1/2 tags support
2772 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2773 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2775 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2776 * TiVo Series 2 support
2777 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2782 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2783 * Flash Screen Video support
2784 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2785 * DosBox Capture support
2786 * Karl Morton's Video support
2787 * limited atrac3 support
2789 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2790 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2791 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2792 * H.264 PAFF support
2793 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2794 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2795 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2796 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2797 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2800 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2801 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2802 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2803 * AQTitle subtitles support
2804 * MKV USF subtitles support
2805 * HTML-based subtitles support
2806 * MPSub subtitles support
2807 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2808 * MPL2 subtitles support
2809 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2810 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2811 * Realtext subtitle support
2812 * DKS subtitle support
2813 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2814 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2817 * Flash Screen Video support
2818 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2820 Video outputs and filters:
2821 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2822 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2823 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2824 * New puzzle video output filter
2825 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2826 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2828 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2829 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2830 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2831 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2832 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2833 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2834 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2835 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2836 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2837 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2838 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2839 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2840 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2841 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2843 Audio outputs and filters:
2844 * Replay gain support
2845 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2846 new scaletempo audio filter)
2847 * New spatializer audio filter
2848 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2851 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2852 * New RTP payload formats:
2853 * Speex voice audio codec
2854 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2855 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2856 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2857 * DCCP transport for RTP
2858 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2863 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2864 end-user suitable way.
2865 * Improved user interaction
2866 * Improved mouse gestures
2867 * Vastly improved Update checker
2868 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2870 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2871 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2873 * Improved video output features
2874 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2875 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2876 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2877 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2878 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2880 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2881 if libncursesw is available.
2882 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2883 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2884 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2886 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2887 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2888 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2889 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2890 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2891 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2892 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2893 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2896 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2897 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2898 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2901 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2902 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2903 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2904 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2905 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2906 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2909 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2910 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2920 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2921 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2922 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2925 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2926 ----------------------------------
2929 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2932 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2933 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2934 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2935 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2936 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2937 * Updated Polish translation
2940 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2941 ----------------------------------
2944 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2945 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2946 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2949 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2950 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2951 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2952 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2953 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2954 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2955 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2956 to an unexpected application termination
2957 * New Serbian translation
2958 * Updated Romanian translation
2961 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2962 ----------------------------------
2965 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2966 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2967 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2968 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2969 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2970 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2971 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2972 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2975 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2976 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2977 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2978 * Fixed AAC resampling
2979 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2980 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2983 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2984 ----------------------------------
2987 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2988 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2989 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2990 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2991 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2994 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2995 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2996 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2997 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2998 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3001 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3002 ----------------------------------
3005 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3006 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3009 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3010 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3011 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3012 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3014 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3018 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3021 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3024 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3027 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3030 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3031 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3032 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3033 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3034 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3036 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3037 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3038 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3039 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3042 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3045 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3046 ----------------------------------
3049 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3050 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3051 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3053 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3054 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3056 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3057 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3060 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3062 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3063 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3064 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3065 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3066 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3067 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3068 two different movies
3069 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3070 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3071 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3074 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3077 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3078 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3079 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3080 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3083 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3084 ----------------------------------
3086 Various bugfixes, notably:
3087 * Windows Vista compatibility
3088 * Cropping in Direct3D
3089 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3090 * RSS filter string overflow
3092 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3094 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3095 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3098 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3099 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3102 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3105 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3108 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3111 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3112 ----------------------------------
3114 Various bugfixes, notably:
3115 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3116 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3117 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3118 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3119 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3120 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3123 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3124 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3127 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3129 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3130 * Diverse usability improvements
3131 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3132 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3133 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3136 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3137 ---------------------------------
3139 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3140 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3143 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3146 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3147 --------------------------------
3150 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3153 * Support for RTSP authentication
3154 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3155 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3156 * ATSC support for DVB input
3157 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3158 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3159 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3162 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3163 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3164 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3165 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3166 * Matroska WavPack support
3167 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3168 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3169 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3172 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3173 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3174 * Improved libcaca support
3178 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3179 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3181 * Systray support in skins
3183 * Support for Apple Remote control
3184 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3185 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3186 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3187 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3189 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3192 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3193 Windows 9x/ME users:
3194 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3195 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3196 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3197 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3198 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3200 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3201 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3210 * Updates to the libvlc API
3211 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3214 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3215 --------------------------------
3218 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3219 * Support for downloading updates
3223 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3224 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3225 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3226 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3228 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3229 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3230 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3233 * Cook (Real audio) support
3235 Playlist / Services discovery:
3236 * XSPF playlist support
3238 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3241 * New JACK audio output
3244 * New video filters:
3245 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3246 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3247 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3248 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3249 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3250 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3253 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3256 * System to inform the user and request information
3257 - HTTP authentication
3261 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3262 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3263 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3266 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3267 - Improved playlist handling
3268 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3270 - Embedded Video output
3271 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3272 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3273 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3274 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3275 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3277 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3278 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3281 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3284 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3285 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3286 * Growl "Now playing" support
3289 * Ability to log to syslog
3290 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3293 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3295 * A bit more automatic testing
3298 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3299 ---------------------------------
3302 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3303 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3306 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3307 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3310 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3313 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3314 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3320 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3323 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3324 --------------------------------
3327 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3331 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3332 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3333 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3336 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3337 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3338 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3339 * GnomeVFS input module
3340 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3341 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3344 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3345 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3346 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3349 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3350 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3356 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3357 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3360 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3361 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3362 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3365 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3367 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3368 - New extended controls panel
3369 - New bookmarks window
3370 - Fixed playlist sorting
3371 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3373 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3374 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3375 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3376 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3380 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3381 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3383 - Include macro to include other files
3387 * Should now work outside IE as well
3390 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3393 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3394 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3397 The following languages were added:
3401 * Simplified Chinese
3402 The following languages were re-added:
3406 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3407 --------------------------------
3410 * Rewrite of the playlist
3412 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3413 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3414 * Preferences improvements:
3415 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3416 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3418 * Core image manipulation support
3419 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3420 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3421 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3422 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3423 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3424 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3425 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3426 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3427 * Access filter architecture
3428 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3429 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3433 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3434 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3435 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3436 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3437 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3438 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3439 * Massive Matroska improvements
3440 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3442 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3443 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3444 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3445 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3446 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3448 Decoders / Encoders:
3449 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3450 * PNG decoder/encoder
3451 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3452 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3455 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3458 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3459 * Brand new SAP module
3460 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3461 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3462 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3463 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3464 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3465 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3469 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3472 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3473 * Image file video output (png)
3474 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3475 * Improvements to wall video filter
3476 * Support for font color and opacity
3482 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3483 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3484 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3488 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3489 - Improved preferences
3490 - Improvements to the wizard
3491 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3493 - Redesigned playlist
3494 - Improved preferences
3496 - Support for multiple actions
3499 - Support for the new playlist system
3501 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3504 * Screensaver disabling fix
3505 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3506 * Support for no-decoration windows
3509 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3510 * The OpenGL video output is back
3511 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3512 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3513 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3514 is not yet available in the new module
3515 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3518 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3527 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3530 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3533 The following languages were added:
3539 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3540 --------------------------------
3543 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3544 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3547 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3548 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3549 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3552 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3555 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3558 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3561 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3562 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3563 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3567 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3569 * Support of playlist group announcement
3572 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3573 --------------------------------
3576 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3577 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3578 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3579 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3580 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3581 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3584 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3585 (Stream your desktop)
3586 * Improved DVD support:
3587 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3588 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3589 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3590 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3591 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3592 (selection of titles/chapters).
3595 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3596 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3597 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3598 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3599 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3600 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3601 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3602 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3603 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3604 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3607 * G.726 audio support
3608 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3609 * MPEG-4 text support
3610 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3611 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3612 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3616 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3617 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3618 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3619 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3620 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3621 * DVB subtitles encoder
3622 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3623 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3625 * Text track muxing for mp4
3626 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3627 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3628 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3629 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3630 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3631 * Improved ASF muxer
3633 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3634 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3635 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3638 * New audio equalizer filter
3639 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3640 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3641 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3642 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3645 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3646 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3647 with support for effects.
3648 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3649 - New filters can be streamed.
3650 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3651 - Centralized scaling and blending
3653 - "time", to display current time
3654 - "marq", to display a marquee
3657 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3658 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3659 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3660 * A few skins2 improvements
3661 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3662 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3663 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3664 * Improved CORBA control module
3667 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3668 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3669 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3672 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3673 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3674 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3677 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3678 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3679 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3680 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3681 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3684 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3687 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3688 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3691 * Server/client network synchronization module
3692 * VBrick streams fully supported
3693 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3697 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3698 --------------------------------
3701 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3702 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3703 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3704 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3707 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3708 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3709 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3710 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3711 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3712 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3713 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3716 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3717 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3718 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3719 * Improved directory access module.
3720 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3721 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3722 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3723 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3724 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3727 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3728 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3729 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3732 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3733 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3734 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3737 * Improved session announcement system.
3738 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3739 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3740 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3741 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3742 * Improved transrater.
3743 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3744 * New configuration system.
3745 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3748 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3749 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3750 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3751 * Supports scheduling.
3752 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3753 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3756 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3757 - Ability to embed video output.
3758 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3759 - Lots of improvements.
3760 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3761 - New design and set of icons.
3762 - Ability to embed video output.
3763 - Support for hotkeys.
3764 - Support for bookmarks.
3766 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3767 - Better hotkeys handling.
3770 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3771 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3772 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3773 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3776 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3777 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3778 * Improved Windows installer.
3784 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3785 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3788 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3789 ---------------------------------
3792 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3793 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3796 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3797 --------------------------------
3800 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3801 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3804 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3805 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3806 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3807 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3810 * Internal improvments
3811 * Improved import/export
3814 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3816 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3817 small and strange formats.
3819 * New MOD audio demux.
3820 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3821 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3822 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3823 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3826 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3827 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3828 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3834 * New opengl video output plugin.
3837 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3838 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3841 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3842 --------------------------------
3845 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3846 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3847 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3848 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3849 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3850 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3851 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3852 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3855 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3860 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3861 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3862 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3863 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3864 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3865 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3866 * Better Icecast support.
3867 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3868 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3871 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3872 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3873 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3874 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3875 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3876 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3877 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3880 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3881 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3882 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3883 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3884 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3885 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3886 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3887 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3888 * Preliminary RTP support.
3889 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3894 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3895 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3897 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3898 - Improvements and help in preferences
3899 - New streaming wizard
3900 - Revised Disc Open menu
3902 - Improvements of the standard pages
3903 - Support for new commands
3904 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3907 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3908 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3911 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3912 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3913 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3914 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3915 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3916 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3917 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3918 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3919 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3922 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3924 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3925 * Support for Panther.
3926 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3927 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3930 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3931 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3932 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3933 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3934 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3935 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3936 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3937 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3940 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3941 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3942 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3945 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3948 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3949 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3950 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3951 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3954 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3955 --------------------------------
3958 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3961 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3962 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3965 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3966 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3969 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3972 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3973 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3976 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3979 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3982 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3983 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3987 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3988 --------------------------------
3991 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3992 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3996 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3997 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3998 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4000 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4001 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4004 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4007 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4010 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4011 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4015 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4016 --------------------------------
4019 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4020 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4024 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4025 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4026 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4027 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4028 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4031 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4032 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4033 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4036 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4037 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4038 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4041 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4042 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4043 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4044 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4045 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4048 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4049 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4050 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4053 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4056 * Improved build system.
4057 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4058 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4059 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4060 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4063 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4064 --------------------------------
4067 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4070 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4071 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4072 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4073 * Video 4 Linux support
4074 * CD Digital Audio support
4075 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4078 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4079 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4080 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4081 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4084 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4085 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4086 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4087 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4088 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4089 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4090 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4093 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4094 * New HTTP remote control interface
4097 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4098 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4099 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4100 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4101 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4104 * New reset option for the preferences
4105 * You can set your language in the prefences
4106 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4107 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4108 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4109 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4112 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4113 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4114 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4117 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4118 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4119 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4120 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4121 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4122 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4123 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4124 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4125 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4126 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4129 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4130 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4131 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4132 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4133 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4134 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4135 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4138 * Interface localization
4139 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4140 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4141 * New full-featured Preferences window
4144 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4145 --------------------------------
4148 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4149 * support for skins at the interface level
4150 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4151 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4152 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4153 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4154 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4157 * fixed HTTP redirects
4158 * support for opening an entire directory
4159 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4160 * new video4linux access plug-in
4161 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4164 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4165 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4166 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4169 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4170 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4171 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4172 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4173 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4174 * new codec for raw I420 video
4175 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4178 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4179 (although it still misses some important features)
4180 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4183 * new HTTP output support
4184 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4185 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4188 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4191 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4194 * reorderable playlist
4195 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4196 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4197 * support for mono audio output devices
4198 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4199 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4200 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4201 * the messages window remembers more lines
4202 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4203 * http and ogg stream output options
4204 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4207 * new skinnable interface
4208 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4210 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4211 * support for FLAC audio format
4212 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4214 * network tab in the interface
4215 * "apply" handling in preferences
4218 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4219 ---------------------------------
4222 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4223 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4224 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4225 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4227 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4228 * DTS S/PDIF support
4231 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4232 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4233 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4234 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4237 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4238 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4241 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4244 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4247 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4249 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4250 * rc interface is now fully useable
4251 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4254 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4255 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4256 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4257 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4258 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4260 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4261 * support for mouse gestures
4262 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4265 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4266 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4269 * improved ID3 tag detection
4270 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4271 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4272 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4274 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4277 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4278 ---------------------------------
4281 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4282 English was set as the preferred language
4285 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4286 --------------------------------
4289 * new mouse gesture interface
4290 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4294 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4295 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4296 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4299 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4300 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4304 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4307 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4308 without the user consent
4311 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4313 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4314 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4315 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4318 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4319 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4320 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4321 * playlist enhancements
4322 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4323 * new step forward/step backward commands
4324 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4325 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4326 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4329 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4330 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4331 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4334 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4335 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4338 * native video output is working again
4339 * only commandline interface support
4340 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4343 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4344 --------------------------------
4347 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4348 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4349 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4350 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4351 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4352 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4353 and A/52 streams are supported)
4354 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4359 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4360 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4361 * VCD entry points support
4362 * VCD image file support
4365 * support for *.asf format
4366 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4367 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4368 * support for ogg encapsulation
4369 * support for raw DV format
4370 * support for *.wav format
4371 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4374 Stream discovery & playlists:
4375 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4376 * support for .m3u file format
4377 * support for .asx file format
4378 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4381 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4382 (only available with the .avi demux)
4383 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4384 * support for raw PCM data
4385 * support for Cinepak video codec
4386 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4387 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4388 * support for Xvid codec
4389 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4390 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4391 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4393 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4395 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4398 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4401 * new WxWindows interface
4402 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4403 device and the channels configuration
4404 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4405 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4406 format that VLC can play
4407 * new swedish translation
4408 * enhancements of the playlist window
4409 * new messages window to see debug info
4410 * fixed a few crashes
4413 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4414 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4415 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4416 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working