1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre1:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
25 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
26 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
27 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
28 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
30 Important changes for packagers:
31 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
32 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
33 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
34 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
35 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
36 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
37 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
38 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
39 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
41 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
44 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
45 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
46 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
47 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
48 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
49 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
50 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
53 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
54 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
55 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
56 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
57 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
58 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
59 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
60 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
61 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
62 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
63 * PulseAudio audio input support
64 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
65 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
66 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
67 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
68 * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
69 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
70 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
73 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
74 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
75 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
76 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
77 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
78 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
79 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
80 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
81 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
82 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
83 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
84 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
85 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
86 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
87 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
90 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
91 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
92 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
93 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
94 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
95 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
96 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
97 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
98 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
99 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
100 * Improved support of tracker files
103 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
104 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
105 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
106 * Qt: small look improvements
107 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
108 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
109 and important cleanups and optimisations
110 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
111 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
112 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
113 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
114 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
115 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
116 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
117 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
118 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
119 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
120 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
121 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
122 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
123 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
124 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
125 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
128 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
129 * New video output for iOS platform
130 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
131 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
132 * Various vmem improvements
133 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
135 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
136 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
137 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
139 Audio Output and Filters:
140 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
141 * New audio output in memory (amem)
142 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
143 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
144 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
145 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
146 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
147 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
148 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
151 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
152 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
153 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
154 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
155 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
156 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
157 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
158 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
159 * New anti-flickering filter
160 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
161 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
162 blackbox and customizable shadow.
163 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
164 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
165 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
168 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
169 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
170 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
171 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
172 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
173 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
174 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
175 * Major rework of VoD support
176 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
177 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
178 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
179 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
180 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
181 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
182 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
183 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
184 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
185 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
188 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
189 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
192 * New capabilities for libVLC:
193 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
194 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
195 list of available audio and video filters
196 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
197 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
198 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
201 * asademux: use libass only
202 * subsass: use libass
203 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
204 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
206 * upnp: use upnp_intel
207 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
208 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
209 * removal of the noise filter
210 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
211 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
212 removed in Growl's next release, too.
213 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
216 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
217 ----------------------------------
220 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
221 including support for OS X Lion
222 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
223 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
226 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
229 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
230 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
231 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
234 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
237 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
238 ----------------------------------
241 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
242 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
245 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
246 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
247 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
248 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
249 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
251 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
252 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
253 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
255 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
256 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
259 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
262 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
265 * Fix quitting on Linux
266 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
270 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
273 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
276 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
277 ---------------------------------
279 Windows and Mac OS X:
280 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
283 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
284 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
287 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
290 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
293 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
295 Miscellaneous fixes in:
296 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
298 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
299 * RTP output and XML export
300 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
304 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
305 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
306 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
307 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
310 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
311 --------------------------------
313 Windows and Mac OS X:
314 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
317 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
320 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
321 * Improve Apple Remote handling
322 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
323 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
324 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
325 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
328 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
329 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
333 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
334 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
335 * New Luganda Translation
338 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
339 --------------------------------
342 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
345 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
346 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
347 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
348 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
351 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
353 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
354 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
355 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
356 * mp4 demuxer improvements
357 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
358 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
359 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
360 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
362 Miscellaneous fixes in:
363 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
364 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
365 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
366 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
367 * Configure and build system improvements
368 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
371 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
372 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
373 * New icelandic translation
376 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
377 --------------------------------
380 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
384 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
385 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
386 and stability reasons
389 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
393 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
396 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
397 ----------------------------------
400 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
403 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
404 ---------------------------------
407 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
408 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
409 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
410 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
413 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
416 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
417 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
418 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
419 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
422 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
423 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
424 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
426 Subtitles and renderer:
427 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
428 * Mark more freetype options as safe
429 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
430 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
431 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
434 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
435 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
436 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
437 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
440 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
441 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
444 * KDE device solid actions
446 * Transcode integer overflow
447 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
448 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
451 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
452 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
453 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
456 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
457 ----------------------------------
460 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
464 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
467 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
470 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
471 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
472 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
473 * Taglib thread-safety fix
476 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
480 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
483 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
486 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
487 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
489 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
493 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
494 * Miscellaneous fixes
497 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
498 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
500 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
501 * New Asturian translation
504 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
505 ----------------------------------
508 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
510 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
513 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
516 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
517 * Various fixes for Windows
520 * New Armenian translation
521 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
522 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
525 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
526 --------------------------------
529 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
531 * Fix folders opening from the interface
534 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
535 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
538 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
539 --------------------------------
542 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
543 * fix for podcasts parsing
544 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
547 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
548 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
551 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
552 * fix m3u playlists exports
555 * fix video autoresize behaviour
558 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
561 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
564 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
567 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
570 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
571 --------------------------------
574 * Avformat fps displaying fix
575 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
578 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
579 of mono streams, especially on Windows
582 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
583 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
584 * fix console output encoding
586 Interface and extensions:
587 * Youtube and other scripts updates
588 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
591 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
592 --------------------------------
595 * New capabilities for libVLC:
596 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
597 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
598 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
599 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
600 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
601 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
602 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
603 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
604 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
605 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
606 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
607 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
608 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
609 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
610 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
614 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
615 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
616 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
617 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
618 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
621 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
624 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
625 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
626 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
630 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
633 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
634 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
635 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
638 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
639 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
640 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
641 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
644 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
645 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
648 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
649 --------------------------------
651 Important changes for users:
652 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
653 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
655 Important changes for packagers:
656 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
657 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
658 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
659 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
660 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
662 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
664 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
665 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
666 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
667 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
668 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
671 * Support for the sftp protocol
672 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
673 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
674 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
675 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
676 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
679 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
680 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
681 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
683 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
684 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
685 * Invmem module improvements
686 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
687 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
688 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
689 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
690 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
691 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
692 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
693 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
694 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
695 * Support for VP8 codec
696 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
699 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
700 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
701 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
702 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
703 * Various EGP improvements
704 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
705 * Metadata and cover art improvements
708 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
709 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
710 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
711 * Podcast images are now displayed
714 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
715 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
716 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
717 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
718 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
719 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
720 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
721 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
722 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
723 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
724 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
727 * New content extensions lua framework
730 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
731 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
732 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
733 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
734 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
735 * NEON assembly audio converter module
736 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
739 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
740 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
741 * Service discovery based on libudev
742 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
745 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
746 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
747 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
748 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
749 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
750 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
751 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
754 * New smem module, streaming to memory
755 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
756 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
759 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
761 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
762 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
765 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
768 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
769 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
770 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
771 by Andy Matuschak et al.
772 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
773 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
774 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
777 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
778 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
781 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
782 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
783 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
787 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
788 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
789 * Improved Solaris port
792 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
793 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
796 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
797 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
798 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
799 * transrate: broken since too long
800 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
801 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
802 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
803 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
804 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
805 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
806 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
807 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
808 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
809 * cddax: use cdda instead.
810 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
811 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
812 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
813 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
816 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
817 --------------------------------
820 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
822 Decoders/Packetizers:
823 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
826 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
827 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
828 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
829 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
830 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
833 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
834 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
837 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
838 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
841 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
842 and Walloon translations updated
843 * Sinhala translation started
846 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
847 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
850 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
851 --------------------------------
854 * SubRip extra styles improvements
855 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
858 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
861 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
862 increase performance and fix x264 issues
865 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
866 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
867 Russian, Slovak translation updates
868 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
871 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
872 --------------------------------
875 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
876 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
879 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
880 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
883 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
884 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
887 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
890 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
891 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
894 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
895 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
898 * New Walloon translation
899 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
902 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
903 --------------------------------
906 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
907 regressions in most popular drivers
908 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
911 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
912 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
913 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
916 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
917 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
920 * Update for appletrailers lua script
921 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
922 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
923 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
924 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
927 * New udev module for linux
930 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
933 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
936 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
937 --------------------------------
940 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
941 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
942 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
945 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
946 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
949 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
950 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
953 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
956 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
957 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
958 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
959 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
962 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
963 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
964 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
965 - no support for Goom and SDL
966 - limited text rendering support
967 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
970 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
971 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
972 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
973 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
974 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
975 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
976 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
977 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
978 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
982 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
985 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
988 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
989 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
990 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
991 Arabic and French translation updates
994 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
995 --------------------------------
998 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
999 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1000 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1001 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1002 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1003 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1006 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1007 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1008 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1011 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1012 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1013 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1016 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1019 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1020 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1023 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1024 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1025 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1026 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1027 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1028 * Fix various crashes
1031 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1033 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1037 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1038 ---------------------------------
1042 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1043 See 'Access:' for more info.
1044 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1047 * Instantaneous pausing
1048 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1049 * Finer speed control
1050 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1051 * Timeshift for most medias
1052 * RTSP trickplay support
1053 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1056 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1057 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1058 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1059 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1060 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1061 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1062 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1063 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1064 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1065 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1068 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1069 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1070 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1071 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1072 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1073 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1074 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1077 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1078 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1081 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1082 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1083 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1084 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1085 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1086 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1087 * DVB scanning on linux
1088 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1089 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1090 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1091 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1092 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1093 * MTP device access on Unix
1094 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1095 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1098 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1099 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1100 Windows and Mac OS X.
1103 * Export the playlist in HTML
1104 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1105 * Better metadata handling and reading
1107 Linux/Windows interface:
1108 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1109 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1110 * Recently played items list
1111 * Interface toolbar customizations
1112 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1113 - More menus actions
1114 - Finer speed slider
1115 - Improvements on many dialogs
1116 - New dialog for plugins listing
1117 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1118 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1119 * Better integration in GTK environments
1122 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1123 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1124 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1125 * Additional usability improvements
1128 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1129 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1130 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1131 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1132 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1135 * New Maemo port with:
1136 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1137 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1140 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1143 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1144 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1145 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1146 * Support for latest iSight models
1149 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1150 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1153 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1154 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1155 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1156 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1157 The old image video output has been removed.
1158 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1159 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1162 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1170 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1171 --------------------------------------
1177 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1178 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1179 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1180 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1181 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1182 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1183 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1185 Various fixes to the following modules:
1188 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1189 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1190 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1192 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1197 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1198 ---------------------------------
1201 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1202 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1205 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1206 ---------------------------------
1209 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1212 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1215 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1216 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1217 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1218 main controller window.
1219 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1222 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1227 * Updates of other localizations
1230 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1231 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1232 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1233 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1234 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1237 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1238 ---------------------------------
1241 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1243 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1246 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1247 --------------------------------
1252 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1253 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1256 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1257 --------------------------------
1259 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1260 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1263 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1266 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1267 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1270 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1271 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1274 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1275 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1276 * Various fixed in playlist
1279 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1282 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1285 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1286 ------------------------------------
1288 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1289 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1292 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1293 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1294 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1297 * Stability fix for the video output.
1300 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1301 --------------------------------
1304 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1305 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1306 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1307 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1308 * Fixed update system bugs
1309 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1312 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1313 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1314 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1315 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1316 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1317 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1318 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1319 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1320 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1321 modern Mac OS X versions
1324 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1325 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1327 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1328 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1331 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1332 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1333 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1334 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1335 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1336 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1339 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1340 --------------------------------
1342 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1343 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1344 * Multiple bugfixes.
1347 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1348 --------------------------------
1350 * Multiple bug fixes.
1353 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1354 ---------------------------------
1358 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1359 recent to work correctly
1360 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1361 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1362 edit the ".hosts" file.
1363 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1364 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1365 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1366 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1367 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1368 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1369 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1370 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1371 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1372 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1373 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1374 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1375 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1376 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1377 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1378 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1379 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1380 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1381 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1382 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1383 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1384 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1385 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1386 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1387 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1388 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1389 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1390 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1391 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1392 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1393 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1394 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1395 and postproc modules.
1396 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1397 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1398 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1399 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1401 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1402 filter. For example:
1403 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1404 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1406 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1407 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1413 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1415 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1416 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1419 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1420 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1422 * Shoutcast TV listings
1423 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1425 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1426 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1428 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1431 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1432 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1433 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1434 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1435 * JACK audio input support
1436 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1437 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1438 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1439 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1440 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1441 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1442 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1443 (available as a separate download).
1444 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1445 * RTMP input support
1446 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1447 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1448 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1450 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1451 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1454 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1455 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1456 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1457 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1459 * APEv1/2 tags support
1460 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1461 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1463 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1464 * TiVo Series 2 support
1465 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1470 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1471 * Flash Screen Video support
1472 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1473 * DosBox Capture support
1474 * Karl Morton's Video support
1475 * limited atrac3 support
1477 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1478 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1479 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1480 * H.264 PAFF support
1481 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1482 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1483 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1484 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1485 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1488 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1489 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1490 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1491 * AQTitle subtitles support
1492 * MKV USF subtitles support
1493 * HTML-based subtitles support
1494 * MPSub subtitles support
1495 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1496 * MPL2 subtitles support
1497 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1498 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1499 * Realtext subtitle support
1500 * DKS subtitle support
1501 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1502 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1505 * Flash Screen Video support
1506 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1508 Video outputs and filters:
1509 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1510 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1511 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1512 * New puzzle video output filter
1513 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1514 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1516 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1517 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1518 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1519 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1520 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1521 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1522 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1523 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1524 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1525 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1526 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1527 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1528 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1529 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1531 Audio outputs and filters:
1532 * Replay gain support
1533 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1534 new scaletempo audio filter)
1535 * New spatializer audio filter
1536 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1539 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1540 * New RTP payload formats:
1541 * Speex voice audio codec
1542 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1543 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1544 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1545 * DCCP transport for RTP
1546 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1551 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1552 end-user suitable way.
1553 * Improved user interaction
1554 * Improved mouse gestures
1555 * Vastly improved Update checker
1556 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1558 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1559 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1561 * Improved video output features
1562 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1563 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1564 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1565 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1566 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1568 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1569 if libncursesw is available.
1570 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1571 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1572 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1574 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1575 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1576 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1577 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1578 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1579 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1580 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1581 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1584 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1585 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1586 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1589 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1590 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1591 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1592 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1593 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1594 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1597 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1598 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1608 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1609 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1610 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1613 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1614 ----------------------------------
1617 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1620 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1621 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1622 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1623 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1624 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1625 * Updated Polish translation
1628 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1629 ----------------------------------
1632 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1633 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1634 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1637 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1638 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1639 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1640 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1641 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1642 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1643 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1644 to an unexpected application termination
1645 * New Serbian translation
1646 * Updated Romanian translation
1649 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1650 ----------------------------------
1653 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1654 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1655 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1656 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1657 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1658 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1659 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1660 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1663 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1664 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1665 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1666 * Fixed AAC resampling
1667 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1668 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1671 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1672 ----------------------------------
1675 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1676 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1677 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1678 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1679 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1682 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1683 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1684 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1685 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1686 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1689 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1690 ----------------------------------
1693 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1694 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1697 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1698 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1699 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1700 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1702 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1706 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1709 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1712 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1715 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1718 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1719 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1720 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1721 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1722 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1724 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1725 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1726 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1727 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1730 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1733 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1734 ----------------------------------
1737 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1738 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1739 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1741 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1742 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1744 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1745 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1748 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1750 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1751 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1752 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1753 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1754 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1755 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1756 two different movies
1757 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1758 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1759 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1762 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1765 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1766 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1767 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1768 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1771 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1772 ----------------------------------
1774 Various bugfixes, notably:
1775 * Windows Vista compatibility
1776 * Cropping in Direct3D
1777 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1778 * RSS filter string overflow
1780 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1782 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1783 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1786 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1787 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1790 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1793 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1796 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1799 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1800 ----------------------------------
1802 Various bugfixes, notably:
1803 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1804 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1805 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1806 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1807 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1808 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1811 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1812 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1815 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1817 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1818 * Diverse usability improvements
1819 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1820 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1821 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1824 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1825 ---------------------------------
1827 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1828 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1831 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1834 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1841 * Support for RTSP authentication
1842 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1843 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1844 * ATSC support for DVB input
1845 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1846 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1847 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1850 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1851 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1852 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1853 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1854 * Matroska WavPack support
1855 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1856 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1857 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1860 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1861 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1862 * Improved libcaca support
1866 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1867 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1869 * Systray support in skins
1871 * Support for Apple Remote control
1872 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1873 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1874 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1875 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1877 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1880 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1881 Windows 9x/ME users:
1882 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1883 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1884 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1885 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1886 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1888 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1889 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1898 * Updates to the libvlc API
1899 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1902 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1903 --------------------------------
1906 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1907 * Support for downloading updates
1911 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1912 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1913 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1914 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1916 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1917 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1918 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1921 * Cook (Real audio) support
1923 Playlist / Services discovery:
1924 * XSPF playlist support
1926 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1929 * New JACK audio output
1932 * New video filters:
1933 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1934 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1935 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1936 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1937 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1938 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1941 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1944 * System to inform the user and request information
1945 - HTTP authentication
1949 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1950 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1951 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1954 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1955 - Improved playlist handling
1956 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1958 - Embedded Video output
1959 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1960 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1961 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1962 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1963 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1965 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1966 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1969 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1972 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1973 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1974 * Growl "Now playing" support
1977 * Ability to log to syslog
1978 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1981 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1983 * A bit more automatic testing
1986 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1987 ---------------------------------
1990 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1991 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1994 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1995 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1998 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2001 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2002 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2008 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2011 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2012 --------------------------------
2015 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2019 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2020 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2021 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2024 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2025 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2026 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2027 * GnomeVFS input module
2028 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2029 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2032 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2033 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2034 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2037 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2038 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2044 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2045 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2048 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2049 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2050 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2053 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2055 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2056 - New extended controls panel
2057 - New bookmarks window
2058 - Fixed playlist sorting
2059 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2061 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2062 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2063 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2064 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2068 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2069 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2071 - Include macro to include other files
2075 * Should now work outside IE as well
2078 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2081 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2082 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2085 The following languages were added:
2089 * Simplified Chinese
2090 The following languages were re-added:
2094 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2095 --------------------------------
2098 * Rewrite of the playlist
2100 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2101 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2102 * Preferences improvements:
2103 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2104 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2106 * Core image manipulation support
2107 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2108 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2109 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2110 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2111 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2112 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2113 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2114 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2115 * Access filter architecture
2116 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2117 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2121 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2122 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2123 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2124 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2125 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2126 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2127 * Massive Matroska improvements
2128 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2130 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2131 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2132 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2133 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2134 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2136 Decoders / Encoders:
2137 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2138 * PNG decoder/encoder
2139 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2140 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2143 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2146 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2147 * Brand new SAP module
2148 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2149 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2150 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2151 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2152 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2153 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2157 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2160 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2161 * Image file video output (png)
2162 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2163 * Improvements to wall video filter
2164 * Support for font color and opacity
2170 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2171 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2172 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2176 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2177 - Improved preferences
2178 - Improvements to the wizard
2179 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2181 - Redesigned playlist
2182 - Improved preferences
2184 - Support for multiple actions
2187 - Support for the new playlist system
2189 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2192 * Screensaver disabling fix
2193 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2194 * Support for no-decoration windows
2197 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2198 * The OpenGL video output is back
2199 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2200 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2201 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2202 is not yet available in the new module
2203 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2206 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2215 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2218 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2221 The following languages were added:
2227 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2228 --------------------------------
2231 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2232 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2235 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2236 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2237 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2240 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2243 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2246 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2249 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2250 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2251 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2255 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2257 * Support of playlist group announcement
2260 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2261 --------------------------------
2264 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2265 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2266 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2267 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2268 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2269 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2272 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2273 (Stream your desktop)
2274 * Improved DVD support:
2275 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2276 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2277 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2278 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2279 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2280 (selection of titles/chapters).
2283 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2284 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2285 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2286 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2287 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2288 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2289 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2290 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2291 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2292 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2295 * G.726 audio support
2296 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2297 * MPEG-4 text support
2298 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2299 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2300 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2304 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2305 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2306 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2307 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2308 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2309 * DVB subtitles encoder
2310 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2311 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2313 * Text track muxing for mp4
2314 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2315 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2316 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2317 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2318 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2319 * Improved ASF muxer
2321 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2322 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2323 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2326 * New audio equalizer filter
2327 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2328 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2329 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2330 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2333 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2334 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2335 with support for effects.
2336 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2337 - New filters can be streamed.
2338 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2339 - Centralized scaling and blending
2341 - "time", to display current time
2342 - "marq", to display a marquee
2345 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2346 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2347 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2348 * A few skins2 improvements
2349 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2350 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2351 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2352 * Improved CORBA control module
2355 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2356 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2357 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2360 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2361 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2362 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2365 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2366 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2367 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2368 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2369 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2372 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2375 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2376 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2379 * Server/client network synchronization module
2380 * VBrick streams fully supported
2381 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2385 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2386 --------------------------------
2389 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2390 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2391 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2392 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2395 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2396 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2397 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2398 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2399 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2400 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2401 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2404 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2405 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2406 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2407 * Improved directory access module.
2408 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2409 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2410 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2411 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2412 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2415 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2416 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2417 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2420 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2421 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2422 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2425 * Improved session announcement system.
2426 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2427 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2428 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2429 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2430 * Improved transrater.
2431 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2432 * New configuration system.
2433 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2436 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2437 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2438 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2439 * Supports scheduling.
2440 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2441 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2444 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2445 - Ability to embed video output.
2446 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2447 - Lots of improvements.
2448 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2449 - New design and set of icons.
2450 - Ability to embed video output.
2451 - Support for hotkeys.
2452 - Support for bookmarks.
2454 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2455 - Better hotkeys handling.
2458 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2459 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2460 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2461 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2464 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2465 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2466 * Improved Windows installer.
2472 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2473 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2476 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2477 ---------------------------------
2480 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2481 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2484 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2485 --------------------------------
2488 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2489 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2492 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2493 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2494 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2495 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2498 * Internal improvments
2499 * Improved import/export
2502 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2504 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2505 small and strange formats.
2507 * New MOD audio demux.
2508 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2509 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2510 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2511 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2514 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2515 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2516 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2522 * New opengl video output plugin.
2525 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2526 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2529 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2530 --------------------------------
2533 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2534 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2535 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2536 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2537 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2538 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2539 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2540 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2543 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2548 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2549 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2550 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2551 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2552 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2553 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2554 * Better Icecast support.
2555 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2556 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2559 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2560 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2561 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2562 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2563 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2564 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2565 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2568 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2569 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2570 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2571 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2572 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2573 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2574 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2575 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2576 * Preliminary RTP support.
2577 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2582 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2583 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2585 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2586 - Improvements and help in preferences
2587 - New streaming wizard
2588 - Revised Disc Open menu
2590 - Improvements of the standard pages
2591 - Support for new commands
2592 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2595 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2596 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2599 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2600 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2601 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2602 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2603 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2604 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2605 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2606 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2607 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2610 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2612 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2613 * Support for Panther.
2614 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2615 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2618 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2619 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2620 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2621 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2622 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2623 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2624 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2625 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2628 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2629 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2630 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2633 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2636 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2637 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2638 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2639 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2642 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2643 --------------------------------
2646 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2649 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2650 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2653 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2654 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2657 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2660 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2661 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2664 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2667 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2670 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2671 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2675 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2676 --------------------------------
2679 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2680 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2684 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2685 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2686 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2688 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2689 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2692 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2695 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2698 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2699 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2703 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2704 --------------------------------
2707 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2708 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2712 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2713 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2714 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2715 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2716 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2719 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2720 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2721 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2724 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2725 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2726 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2729 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2730 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2731 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2732 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2733 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2736 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2737 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2738 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2741 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2744 * Improved build system.
2745 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2746 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2747 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2748 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2751 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2752 --------------------------------
2755 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2758 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2759 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2760 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2761 * Video 4 Linux support
2762 * CD Digital Audio support
2763 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2766 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2767 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2768 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2769 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2772 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2773 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2774 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2775 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2776 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2777 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2778 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2781 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2782 * New HTTP remote control interface
2785 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2786 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2787 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2788 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2789 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2792 * New reset option for the preferences
2793 * You can set your language in the prefences
2794 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2795 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2796 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2797 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2800 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2801 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2802 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2805 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2806 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2807 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2808 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2809 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2810 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2811 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2812 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2813 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2814 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2817 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2818 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2819 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2820 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2821 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2822 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2823 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2826 * Interface localization
2827 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2828 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2829 * New full-featured Preferences window
2832 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2833 --------------------------------
2836 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2837 * support for skins at the interface level
2838 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2839 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2840 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2841 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2842 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2845 * fixed HTTP redirects
2846 * support for opening an entire directory
2847 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2848 * new video4linux access plug-in
2849 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2852 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2853 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2854 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2857 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2858 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2859 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2860 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2861 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2862 * new codec for raw I420 video
2863 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2866 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2867 (although it still misses some important features)
2868 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2871 * new HTTP output support
2872 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2873 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2876 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2879 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2882 * reorderable playlist
2883 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2884 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2885 * support for mono audio output devices
2886 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2887 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2888 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2889 * the messages window remembers more lines
2890 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2891 * http and ogg stream output options
2892 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2895 * new skinnable interface
2896 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2898 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2899 * support for FLAC audio format
2900 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2902 * network tab in the interface
2903 * "apply" handling in preferences
2906 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2907 ---------------------------------
2910 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2911 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2912 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2913 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2915 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2916 * DTS S/PDIF support
2919 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2920 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2921 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2922 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2925 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2926 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2929 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2932 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2935 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2937 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2938 * rc interface is now fully useable
2939 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2942 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2943 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2944 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2945 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2946 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2948 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2949 * support for mouse gestures
2950 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2953 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2954 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2957 * improved ID3 tag detection
2958 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2959 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2960 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2962 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2965 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2966 ---------------------------------
2969 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2970 English was set as the preferred language
2973 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2974 --------------------------------
2977 * new mouse gesture interface
2978 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2982 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2983 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2984 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2987 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2988 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2992 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2995 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2996 without the user consent
2999 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3001 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3002 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3003 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3006 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3007 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3008 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3009 * playlist enhancements
3010 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3011 * new step forward/step backward commands
3012 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3013 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3014 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3017 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3018 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3019 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3022 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3023 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3026 * native video output is working again
3027 * only commandline interface support
3028 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3031 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3032 --------------------------------
3035 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3036 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3037 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3038 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3039 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3040 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3041 and A/52 streams are supported)
3042 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3047 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3048 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3049 * VCD entry points support
3050 * VCD image file support
3053 * support for *.asf format
3054 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3055 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3056 * support for ogg encapsulation
3057 * support for raw DV format
3058 * support for *.wav format
3059 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3062 Stream discovery & playlists:
3063 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3064 * support for .m3u file format
3065 * support for .asx file format
3066 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3069 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3070 (only available with the .avi demux)
3071 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3072 * support for raw PCM data
3073 * support for Cinepak video codec
3074 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3075 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3076 * support for Xvid codec
3077 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3078 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3079 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3081 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3083 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3086 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3089 * new WxWindows interface
3090 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3091 device and the channels configuration
3092 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3093 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3094 format that VLC can play
3095 * new swedish translation
3096 * enhancements of the playlist window
3097 * new messages window to see debug info
3098 * fixed a few crashes
3101 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3102 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3103 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3104 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working