1 Changes between 1.0.0-rc1 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ----------------------------------------
5 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
8 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0-rc1:
9 ------------------------------------
13 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
14 See 'Access:' for more info.
15 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
18 * Instantaneous pausing
19 * Frame-by-Frame playback
21 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
22 * Timeshift for most medias
23 * RTSP trickplay support
24 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
27 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
28 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
29 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
30 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
31 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
32 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
33 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
34 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
35 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
36 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
39 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
40 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
41 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
42 * Metadata for mod files are supported
43 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
44 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
45 * New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams
48 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
49 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
52 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
53 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
54 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
55 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
56 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
57 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
58 * DVB scanning on linux
59 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
60 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
61 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
62 * MTP device access on Unix
63 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
64 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
67 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
68 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
72 * Export the playlist in HTML
73 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
74 * Better metadata handling and reading
76 Linux/Windows interface:
77 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
78 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
79 * Recently played items list
80 * Interface toolbar customizations
81 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
84 - Improvements on many dialogs
85 - New dialog for plugins listing
86 - Fixed-size mode for videos
87 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
88 * Better integration in GTK environments
91 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
92 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
93 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
94 * Additional usability improvements
97 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
98 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
99 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
100 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
101 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
104 * New Maemo port with:
105 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
106 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
109 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
112 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
113 * New Document icons by Dominic Spitaler
116 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
117 * Surround support for PulseAudio
120 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
121 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
122 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
123 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
124 The old image video output has been removed.
125 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
126 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
129 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
132 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
133 ---------------------------------
136 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
137 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
140 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
141 ---------------------------------
144 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
147 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
150 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
151 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
152 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
153 main controller window.
154 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
157 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
162 * Updates of other localizations
165 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
166 * Lots of small bugfixes.
167 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
168 * Telnet fixes on Windows
169 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
171 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
172 ---------------------------------
175 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
177 Bunch of small bugfixes.
180 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
181 --------------------------------
186 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
187 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
190 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
191 --------------------------------
193 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
194 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
197 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
200 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
201 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
204 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
205 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
208 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
209 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
210 * Various fixed in playlist
213 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
216 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
219 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
220 ------------------------------------
222 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
223 * Fixes several memory leaks.
226 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
227 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
228 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
231 * Stability fix for the video output.
234 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
235 --------------------------------
238 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
239 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
240 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
241 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
242 * Fixed update system bugs
243 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
246 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
247 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
248 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
249 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
250 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
251 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
252 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
253 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
254 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
255 modern Mac OS X versions
258 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
259 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
261 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
262 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
265 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
266 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
267 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
268 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
269 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
270 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
273 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
274 --------------------------------
276 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
277 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
281 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
282 --------------------------------
284 * Multiple bug fixes.
287 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
288 ---------------------------------
292 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
293 recent to work correctly
294 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
295 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
296 edit the ".hosts" file.
297 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
298 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
299 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
300 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
301 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
302 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
303 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
304 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
305 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
306 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
307 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
308 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
309 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
310 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
311 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
312 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
313 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
314 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
315 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
316 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
317 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
318 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
319 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
320 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
321 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
322 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
323 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
324 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
325 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
326 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
327 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
328 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
329 and postproc modules.
330 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
331 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
332 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
333 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
335 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
337 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
338 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
340 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
341 * Glide video output module has been removed.
347 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
349 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
350 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
353 * Vastly improved playlist support:
354 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
356 * Shoutcast TV listings
357 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
359 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
360 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
362 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
365 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
366 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
367 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
368 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
369 * JACK audio input support
370 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
371 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
372 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
373 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
374 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
375 * Experimental EyeTV access module
376 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
377 (available as a separate download).
378 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
380 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
381 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
382 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
384 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
385 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
388 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
389 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
390 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
391 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
393 * APEv1/2 tags support
394 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
395 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
397 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
398 * TiVo Series 2 support
399 * CD+G karaoke Files support
404 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
405 * Flash Screen Video support
406 * CamStudio Screen Video support
407 * DosBox Capture support
408 * Karl Morton's Video support
409 * limited atrac3 support
411 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
412 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
413 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
415 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
416 * NellyMoser ASAO support
417 * APE (Monkey audio) support
418 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
419 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
422 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
423 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
424 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
425 * AQTitle subtitles support
426 * MKV USF subtitles support
427 * HTML-based subtitles support
428 * MPSub subtitles support
429 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
430 * MPL2 subtitles support
431 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
432 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
433 * Realtext subtitle support
434 * DKS subtitle support
435 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
436 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
439 * Flash Screen Video support
440 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
442 Video outputs and filters:
443 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
444 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
445 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
446 * New puzzle video output filter
447 * Re-written motion detection video filter
448 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
450 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
451 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
452 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
453 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
454 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
455 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
456 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
457 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
458 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
459 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
460 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
461 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
462 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
463 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
465 Audio outputs and filters:
466 * Replay gain support
467 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
468 new scaletempo audio filter)
469 * New spatializer audio filter
470 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
473 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
474 * New RTP payload formats:
475 * Speex voice audio codec
476 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
477 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
478 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
479 * DCCP transport for RTP
480 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
485 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
486 end-user suitable way.
487 * Improved user interaction
488 * Improved mouse gestures
489 * Vastly improved Update checker
490 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
492 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
493 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
495 * Improved video output features
496 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
497 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
498 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
499 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
500 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
502 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
503 if libncursesw is available.
504 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
505 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
506 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
508 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
509 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
510 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
511 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
512 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
513 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
514 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
515 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
518 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
519 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
520 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
523 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
524 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
525 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
526 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
527 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
528 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
531 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
532 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
542 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
543 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
544 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
547 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
548 ----------------------------------
551 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
554 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
555 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
556 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
557 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
558 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
559 * Updated Polish translation
562 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
563 ----------------------------------
566 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
567 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
568 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
571 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
572 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
573 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
574 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
575 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
576 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
577 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
578 to an unexpected application termination
579 * New Serbian translation
580 * Updated Romanian translation
583 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
584 ----------------------------------
587 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
588 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
589 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
590 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
591 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
592 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
593 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
594 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
597 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
598 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
599 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
600 * Fixed AAC resampling
601 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
602 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
605 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
606 ----------------------------------
609 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
610 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
611 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
612 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
613 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
616 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
617 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
618 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
619 * Close MMS access on network timeout
620 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
623 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
624 ----------------------------------
627 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
628 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
631 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
632 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
633 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
634 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
636 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
640 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
643 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
646 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
649 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
652 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
653 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
654 encoding on multi-cpu systems
655 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
656 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
658 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
659 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
660 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
661 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
664 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
667 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
668 ----------------------------------
671 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
672 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
673 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
675 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
676 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
678 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
679 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
682 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
684 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
685 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
686 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
687 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
688 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
689 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
691 * Support for current Ogg file formats
692 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
693 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
696 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
699 * The automatic updating facility was removed
700 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
701 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
702 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
705 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
706 ----------------------------------
708 Various bugfixes, notably:
709 * Windows Vista compatibility
710 * Cropping in Direct3D
711 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
712 * RSS filter string overflow
714 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
716 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
717 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
720 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
721 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
724 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
727 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
730 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
733 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
734 ----------------------------------
736 Various bugfixes, notably:
737 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
738 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
739 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
740 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
741 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
742 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
745 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
746 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
749 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
751 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
752 * Diverse usability improvements
753 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
754 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
755 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
758 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
759 ---------------------------------
762 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
765 * Fullscreen controller improvements
768 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
769 --------------------------------
772 * Shoutcast TV listings support
775 * Support for RTSP authentication
776 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
777 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
778 * ATSC support for DVB input
779 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
780 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
781 * Improved support for Flash Video files
784 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
785 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
786 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
787 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
788 * Matroska WavPack support
789 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
790 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
791 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
794 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
795 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
796 * Improved libcaca support
800 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
801 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
803 * Systray support in skins
805 * Support for Apple Remote control
806 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
807 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
808 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
809 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
811 * Notifications using notification-daemon
814 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
816 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
817 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
818 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
819 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
820 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
822 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
823 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
832 * Updates to the libvlc API
833 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
836 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
837 --------------------------------
840 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
841 * Support for downloading updates
845 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
846 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
847 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
848 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
850 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
851 * Improved subtitles encoding support
852 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
855 * Cook (Real audio) support
857 Playlist / Services discovery:
858 * XSPF playlist support
860 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
863 * New JACK audio output
867 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
868 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
869 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
870 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
871 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
872 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
875 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
878 * System to inform the user and request information
879 - HTTP authentication
883 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
884 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
885 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
888 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
889 - Improved playlist handling
890 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
892 - Embedded Video output
893 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
894 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
895 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
896 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
897 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
899 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
900 - A bunch of new RPN functions
903 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
906 * Mac-Intel compatibility
907 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
908 * Growl "Now playing" support
911 * Ability to log to syslog
912 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
915 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
917 * A bit more automatic testing
920 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
921 ---------------------------------
924 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
925 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
928 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
929 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
932 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
935 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
936 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
942 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
945 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
946 --------------------------------
949 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
953 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
954 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
955 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
958 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
959 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
960 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
961 * GnomeVFS input module
962 * Support for RTP packet reordering
963 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
966 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
967 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
968 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
971 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
972 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
978 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
979 Mixer and Dolby Surround
982 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
983 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
984 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
987 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
989 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
990 - New extended controls panel
991 - New bookmarks window
992 - Fixed playlist sorting
993 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
995 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
996 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
997 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
998 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1002 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1003 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1005 - Include macro to include other files
1009 * Should now work outside IE as well
1012 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1015 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1016 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1019 The following languages were added:
1023 * Simplified Chinese
1024 The following languages were re-added:
1028 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1029 --------------------------------
1032 * Rewrite of the playlist
1034 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1035 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1036 * Preferences improvements:
1037 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1038 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1040 * Core image manipulation support
1041 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1042 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1043 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1044 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1045 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1046 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1047 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1048 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1049 * Access filter architecture
1050 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1051 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1055 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1056 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1057 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1058 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1059 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1060 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1061 * Massive Matroska improvements
1062 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1064 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1065 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1066 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1067 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1068 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1070 Decoders / Encoders:
1071 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1072 * PNG decoder/encoder
1073 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1074 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1077 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1080 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1081 * Brand new SAP module
1082 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1083 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1084 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1085 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1086 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1087 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1091 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1094 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1095 * Image file video output (png)
1096 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1097 * Improvements to wall video filter
1098 * Support for font color and opacity
1104 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1105 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1106 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1110 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1111 - Improved preferences
1112 - Improvements to the wizard
1113 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1115 - Redesigned playlist
1116 - Improved preferences
1118 - Support for multiple actions
1121 - Support for the new playlist system
1123 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1126 * Screensaver disabling fix
1127 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1128 * Support for no-decoration windows
1131 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1132 * The OpenGL video output is back
1133 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1134 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1135 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1136 is not yet available in the new module
1137 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1140 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1149 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1152 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1155 The following languages were added:
1161 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1162 --------------------------------
1165 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1166 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1169 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1170 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1171 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1174 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1177 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1180 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1183 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1184 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1185 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1189 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1191 * Support of playlist group announcement
1194 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1195 --------------------------------
1198 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1199 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1200 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1201 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1202 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1203 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1206 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1207 (Stream your desktop)
1208 * Improved DVD support:
1209 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1210 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1211 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1212 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1213 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1214 (selection of titles/chapters).
1217 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1218 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1219 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1220 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1221 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1222 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1223 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1224 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1225 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1226 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1229 * G.726 audio support
1230 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1231 * MPEG-4 text support
1232 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1233 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1234 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1238 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1239 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1240 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1241 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1242 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1243 * DVB subtitles encoder
1244 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1245 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1247 * Text track muxing for mp4
1248 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1249 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1250 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1251 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1252 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1253 * Improved ASF muxer
1255 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1256 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1257 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1260 * New audio equalizer filter
1261 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1262 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1263 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1264 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1267 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1268 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1269 with support for effects.
1270 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1271 - New filters can be streamed.
1272 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1273 - Centralized scaling and blending
1275 - "time", to display current time
1276 - "marq", to display a marquee
1279 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1280 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1281 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1282 * A few skins2 improvements
1283 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1284 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1285 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1286 * Improved CORBA control module
1289 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1290 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1291 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1294 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1295 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1296 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1299 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1300 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1301 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1302 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1303 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1306 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1309 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1310 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1313 * Server/client network synchronization module
1314 * VBrick streams fully supported
1315 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1319 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1320 --------------------------------
1323 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1324 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1325 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1326 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1329 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1330 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1331 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1332 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1333 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1334 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1335 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1338 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1339 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1340 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1341 * Improved directory access module.
1342 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1343 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1344 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1345 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1346 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1349 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1350 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1351 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1354 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1355 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1356 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1359 * Improved session announcement system.
1360 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1361 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1362 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1363 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1364 * Improved transrater.
1365 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1366 * New configuration system.
1367 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1370 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1371 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1372 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1373 * Supports scheduling.
1374 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1375 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1378 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1379 - Ability to embed video output.
1380 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1381 - Lots of improvements.
1382 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1383 - New design and set of icons.
1384 - Ability to embed video output.
1385 - Support for hotkeys.
1386 - Support for bookmarks.
1388 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1389 - Better hotkeys handling.
1392 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1393 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1394 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1395 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1398 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1399 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1400 * Improved Windows installer.
1406 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1407 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1410 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1411 ---------------------------------
1414 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1415 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1418 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1419 --------------------------------
1422 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1423 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1426 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1427 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1428 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1429 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1432 * Internal improvments
1433 * Improved import/export
1436 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1438 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1439 small and strange formats.
1441 * New MOD audio demux.
1442 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1443 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1444 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1445 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1448 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1449 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1450 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1456 * New opengl video output plugin.
1459 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1460 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1463 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1464 --------------------------------
1467 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1468 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1469 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1470 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1471 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1472 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1473 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1474 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1477 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1482 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1483 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1484 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1485 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1486 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1487 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1488 * Better Icecast support.
1489 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1490 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1493 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1494 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1495 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1496 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1497 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1498 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1499 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1502 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1503 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1504 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1505 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1506 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1507 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1508 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1509 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1510 * Preliminary RTP support.
1511 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1516 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1517 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1519 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1520 - Improvements and help in preferences
1521 - New streaming wizard
1522 - Revised Disc Open menu
1524 - Improvements of the standard pages
1525 - Support for new commands
1526 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1529 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1530 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1533 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1534 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1535 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1536 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1537 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1538 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1539 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1540 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1541 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1544 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1546 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1547 * Support for Panther.
1548 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1549 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1552 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1553 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1554 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1555 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1556 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1557 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1558 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1559 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1562 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1563 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1564 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1567 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1570 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1571 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1572 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1573 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1576 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1577 --------------------------------
1580 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1583 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1584 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1587 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1588 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1591 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1594 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1595 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1598 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1601 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1604 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1605 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1609 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1610 --------------------------------
1613 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1614 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1618 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1619 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1620 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1622 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1623 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1626 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1629 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1632 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1633 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1637 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1642 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1646 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1647 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1648 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1649 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1650 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1653 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1654 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1655 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1658 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1659 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1660 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1663 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1664 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1665 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1666 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1667 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1670 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1671 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1672 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1675 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1678 * Improved build system.
1679 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1680 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1681 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1682 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1685 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1686 --------------------------------
1689 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1692 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1693 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1694 * Video 4 Linux support
1695 * CD Digital Audio support
1696 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1699 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1700 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1701 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1702 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1705 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1706 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1707 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1708 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1709 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1710 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1711 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1714 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1715 * New HTTP remote control interface
1718 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1719 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1720 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1721 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1724 * New reset option for the preferences
1725 * You can set your language in the prefences
1726 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1727 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1728 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1729 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1732 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1733 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1734 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1737 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1738 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1739 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1740 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1741 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1742 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1743 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1744 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1745 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1746 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1749 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1750 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1751 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1752 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1753 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1754 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1755 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1758 * Interface localization
1759 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1760 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1761 * New full-featured Preferences window
1764 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1765 --------------------------------
1768 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1769 * support for skins at the interface level
1770 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1771 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1772 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1773 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1774 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1777 * fixed HTTP redirects
1778 * support for opening an entire directory
1779 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1780 * new video4linux access plug-in
1781 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1784 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1785 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1786 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1789 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1790 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1791 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1792 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1793 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1794 * new codec for raw I420 video
1795 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1798 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1799 (although it still misses some important features)
1800 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1803 * new HTTP output support
1804 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1805 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1808 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1811 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1814 * reorderable playlist
1815 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1816 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1817 * support for mono audio output devices
1818 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1819 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1820 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1821 * the messages window remembers more lines
1822 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1823 * http and ogg stream output options
1824 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1827 * new skinnable interface
1828 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1830 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1831 * support for FLAC audio format
1832 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1834 * network tab in the interface
1835 * "apply" handling in preferences
1838 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1839 ---------------------------------
1842 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1843 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1844 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1845 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1847 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1848 * DTS S/PDIF support
1851 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1852 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1853 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1854 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1857 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1858 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1861 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1864 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1867 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1869 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1870 * rc interface is now fully useable
1871 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1874 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1875 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1876 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1877 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1878 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1880 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1881 * support for mouse gestures
1882 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1885 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1886 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1889 * improved ID3 tag detection
1890 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1891 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1892 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1894 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1897 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1898 ---------------------------------
1901 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1902 English was set as the preferred language
1905 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1906 --------------------------------
1909 * new mouse gesture interface
1910 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1914 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1915 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1916 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1919 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1920 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1924 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1927 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1928 without the user consent
1931 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1933 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1934 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1935 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1938 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1939 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1940 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1941 * playlist enhancements
1942 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1943 * new step forward/step backward commands
1944 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1945 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1946 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1949 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1950 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1951 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1954 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1955 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1958 * native video output is working again
1959 * only commandline interface support
1960 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1963 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1964 --------------------------------
1967 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1968 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1969 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1970 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1971 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1972 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1973 and A/52 streams are supported)
1974 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1979 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1980 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1981 * VCD entry points support
1982 * VCD image file support
1985 * support for *.asf format
1986 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1987 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1988 * support for ogg encapsulation
1989 * support for raw DV format
1990 * support for *.wav format
1991 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1994 Stream discovery & playlists:
1995 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1996 * support for .m3u file format
1997 * support for .asx file format
1998 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2001 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2002 (only available with the .avi demux)
2003 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2004 * support for raw PCM data
2005 * support for Cinepak video codec
2006 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2007 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2008 * support for Xvid codec
2009 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2010 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2011 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2013 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2015 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2018 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2021 * new WxWindows interface
2022 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2023 device and the channels configuration
2024 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2025 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2026 format that VLC can play
2027 * new swedish translation
2028 * enhancements of the playlist window
2029 * new messages window to see debug info
2030 * fixed a few crashes
2033 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2034 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2035 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2036 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working