1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
14 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
15 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
17 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
18 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
22 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
23 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
24 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
25 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
30 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
31 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
32 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
33 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
34 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
35 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
36 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
37 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
38 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
39 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
40 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
41 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
42 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
43 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
44 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
47 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
48 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
49 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
51 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
52 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
55 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
56 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
57 * Ogg seeking improvements
58 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
59 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
60 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
61 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
64 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
65 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
66 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
67 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
68 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
69 and important cleanups and optimisations
70 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
71 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
72 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
73 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
74 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
75 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
76 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
77 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
78 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
79 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
82 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
83 * New video output for iOS platform
84 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
85 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
86 * Various vmem improvements
87 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
89 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
90 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
93 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
94 * New audio output in memory (amem)
95 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
96 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
99 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
100 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
101 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
102 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
103 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
104 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
105 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
106 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
107 * New anti-flickering filter
108 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
109 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
110 blackbox and customizable shadow
113 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
116 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
117 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
118 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
119 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
120 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
121 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
122 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
123 * Major rework of VoD support
124 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
125 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
126 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
127 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
128 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
129 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
130 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
131 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
132 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
135 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
136 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
139 * New capabilities for libVLC:
140 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
141 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
142 list of available audio and video filters
143 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
144 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
147 * asademux: use libass only
148 * subsass: use libass
149 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
150 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
152 * upnp: use upnp_intel
153 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
154 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
155 * remove of the noise filter
158 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
159 ----------------------------------
162 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
163 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
166 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
167 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
168 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
169 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
170 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
172 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
173 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
174 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
176 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
177 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
180 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
183 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
186 * Fix quitting on Linux
187 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
191 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
194 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
197 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
198 ---------------------------------
200 Windows and Mac OS X:
201 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
204 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
205 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
208 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
211 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
214 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
216 Miscellaneous fixes in:
217 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
219 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
220 * RTP output and XML export
221 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
225 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
226 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
227 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
228 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
231 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
232 --------------------------------
234 Windows and Mac OS X:
235 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
238 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
241 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
242 * Improve Apple Remote handling
243 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
244 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
245 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
246 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
249 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
250 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
254 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
255 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
256 * New Luganda Translation
259 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
260 --------------------------------
263 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
266 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
267 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
268 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
269 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
272 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
274 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
275 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
276 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
277 * mp4 demuxer improvements
278 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
279 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
280 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
281 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
283 Miscellaneous fixes in:
284 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
285 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
286 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
287 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
288 * Configure and build system improvements
289 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
292 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
293 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
294 * New icelandic translation
297 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
298 --------------------------------
301 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
305 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
306 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
307 and stability reasons
310 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
314 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
317 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
318 ----------------------------------
321 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
324 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
325 ---------------------------------
328 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
329 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
330 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
331 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
334 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
337 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
338 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
339 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
340 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
343 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
344 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
345 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
347 Subtitles and renderer:
348 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
349 * Mark more freetype options as safe
350 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
351 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
352 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
355 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
356 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
357 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
358 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
361 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
362 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
365 * KDE device solid actions
367 * Transcode integer overflow
368 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
369 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
372 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
373 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
374 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
377 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
378 ----------------------------------
381 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
385 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
388 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
391 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
392 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
393 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
394 * Taglib thread-safety fix
397 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
401 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
404 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
407 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
408 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
410 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
414 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
415 * Miscellaneous fixes
418 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
419 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
421 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
422 * New Asturian translation
425 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
426 ----------------------------------
429 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
431 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
434 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
437 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
438 * Various fixes for Windows
441 * New Armenian translation
442 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
443 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
446 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
447 --------------------------------
450 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
452 * Fix folders opening from the interface
455 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
456 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
459 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
460 --------------------------------
463 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
464 * fix for podcasts parsing
465 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
468 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
469 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
472 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
473 * fix m3u playlists exports
476 * fix video autoresize behaviour
479 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
482 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
485 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
488 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
491 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
492 --------------------------------
495 * Avformat fps displaying fix
496 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
499 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
500 of mono streams, especially on Windows
503 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
504 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
505 * fix console output encoding
507 Interface and extensions:
508 * Youtube and other scripts updates
509 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
512 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
513 --------------------------------
516 * New capabilities for libVLC:
517 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
518 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
519 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
520 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
521 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
522 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
523 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
524 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
525 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
526 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
527 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
528 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
529 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
530 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
531 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
535 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
536 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
537 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
538 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
539 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
542 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
545 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
546 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
547 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
551 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
554 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
555 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
556 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
559 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
560 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
561 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
562 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
565 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
566 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
569 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
570 --------------------------------
572 Important changes for users:
573 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
574 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
576 Important changes for packagers:
577 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
578 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
579 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
580 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
581 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
583 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
585 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
586 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
587 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
588 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
589 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
592 * Support for the sftp protocol
593 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
594 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
595 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
596 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
597 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
600 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
601 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
602 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
604 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
605 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
606 * Invmem module improvements
607 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
608 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
609 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
610 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
611 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
612 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
613 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
614 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
615 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
616 * Support for VP8 codec
617 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
620 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
621 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
622 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
623 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
624 * Various EGP improvements
625 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
626 * Metadata and cover art improvements
629 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
630 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
631 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
632 * Podcast images are now displayed
635 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
636 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
637 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
638 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
639 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
640 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
641 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
642 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
643 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
644 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
645 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
648 * New content extensions lua framework
651 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
652 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
653 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
654 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
655 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
656 * NEON assembly audio converter module
657 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
660 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
661 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
662 * Service discovery based on libudev
663 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
666 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
667 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
668 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
669 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
670 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
671 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
672 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
675 * New smem module, streaming to memory
676 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
677 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
680 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
682 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
683 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
686 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
689 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
690 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
691 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
692 by Andy Matuschak et al.
693 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
694 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
695 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
698 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
699 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
702 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
703 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
704 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
708 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
709 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
710 * Improved Solaris port
713 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
714 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
717 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
718 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
719 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
720 * transrate: broken since too long
721 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
722 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
723 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
724 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
725 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
726 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
727 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
728 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
729 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
730 * cddax: use cdda instead.
731 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
732 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
733 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
734 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
737 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
738 --------------------------------
741 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
743 Decoders/Packetizers:
744 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
747 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
748 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
749 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
750 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
751 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
754 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
755 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
758 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
759 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
762 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
763 and Walloon translations updated
764 * Sinhala translation started
767 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
768 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
771 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
772 --------------------------------
775 * SubRip extra styles improvements
776 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
779 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
782 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
783 increase performance and fix x264 issues
786 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
787 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
788 Russian, Slovak translation updates
789 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
792 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
793 --------------------------------
796 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
797 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
800 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
801 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
804 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
805 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
808 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
811 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
812 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
815 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
816 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
819 * New Walloon translation
820 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
823 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
824 --------------------------------
827 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
828 regressions in most popular drivers
829 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
832 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
833 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
834 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
837 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
838 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
841 * Update for appletrailers lua script
842 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
843 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
844 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
845 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
848 * New udev module for linux
851 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
854 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
857 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
858 --------------------------------
861 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
862 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
863 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
866 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
867 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
870 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
871 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
874 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
877 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
878 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
879 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
880 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
883 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
884 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
885 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
886 - no support for Goom and SDL
887 - limited text rendering support
888 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
891 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
892 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
893 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
894 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
895 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
896 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
897 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
898 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
899 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
903 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
906 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
909 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
910 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
911 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
912 Arabic and French translation updates
915 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
916 --------------------------------
919 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
920 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
921 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
922 * Fix Dailymotion access script
923 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
924 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
927 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
928 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
931 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
932 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
933 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
936 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
939 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
940 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
943 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
944 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
945 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
946 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
947 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
948 * Fix various crashes
951 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
953 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
956 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
957 ---------------------------------
961 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
962 See 'Access:' for more info.
963 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
966 * Instantaneous pausing
967 * Frame-by-Frame playback
968 * Finer speed control
969 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
970 * Timeshift for most medias
971 * RTSP trickplay support
972 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
975 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
976 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
977 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
978 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
979 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
980 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
981 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
982 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
983 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
984 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
987 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
988 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
989 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
990 * Metadata for mod files are supported
991 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
992 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
993 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
996 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
997 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1000 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1001 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1002 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1003 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1004 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1005 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1006 * DVB scanning on linux
1007 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1008 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1009 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1010 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1011 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1012 * MTP device access on Unix
1013 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1014 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1017 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1018 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1019 Windows and Mac OS X.
1022 * Export the playlist in HTML
1023 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1024 * Better metadata handling and reading
1026 Linux/Windows interface:
1027 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1028 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1029 * Recently played items list
1030 * Interface toolbar customizations
1031 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1032 - More menus actions
1033 - Finer speed slider
1034 - Improvements on many dialogs
1035 - New dialog for plugins listing
1036 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1037 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1038 * Better integration in GTK environments
1041 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1042 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1043 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1044 * Additional usability improvements
1047 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1048 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1049 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1050 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1051 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1054 * New Maemo port with:
1055 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1056 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1059 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1062 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1063 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1064 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1065 * Support for latest iSight models
1068 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1069 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1072 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1073 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1074 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1075 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1076 The old image video output has been removed.
1077 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1078 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1081 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1089 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1090 --------------------------------------
1096 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1097 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1098 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1099 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1100 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1101 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1102 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1104 Various fixes to the following modules:
1107 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1108 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1109 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1111 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1116 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1117 ---------------------------------
1120 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1121 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1124 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1125 ---------------------------------
1128 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1131 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1134 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1135 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1136 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1137 main controller window.
1138 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1141 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1146 * Updates of other localizations
1149 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1150 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1151 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1152 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1153 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1156 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1157 ---------------------------------
1160 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1162 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1165 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1166 --------------------------------
1171 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1172 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1175 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1176 --------------------------------
1178 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1179 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1182 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1185 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1186 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1189 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1190 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1193 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1194 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1195 * Various fixed in playlist
1198 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1201 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1204 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1205 ------------------------------------
1207 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1208 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1211 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1212 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1213 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1216 * Stability fix for the video output.
1219 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1220 --------------------------------
1223 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1224 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1225 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1226 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1227 * Fixed update system bugs
1228 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1231 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1232 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1233 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1234 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1235 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1236 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1237 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1238 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1239 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1240 modern Mac OS X versions
1243 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1244 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1246 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1247 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1250 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1251 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1252 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1253 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1254 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1255 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1258 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1259 --------------------------------
1261 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1262 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1263 * Multiple bugfixes.
1266 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1267 --------------------------------
1269 * Multiple bug fixes.
1272 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1273 ---------------------------------
1277 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1278 recent to work correctly
1279 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1280 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1281 edit the ".hosts" file.
1282 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1283 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1284 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1285 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1286 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1287 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1288 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1289 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1290 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1291 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1292 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1293 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1294 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1295 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1296 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1297 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1298 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1299 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1300 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1301 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1302 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1303 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1304 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1305 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1306 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1307 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1308 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1309 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1310 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1311 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1312 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1313 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1314 and postproc modules.
1315 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1316 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1317 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1318 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1320 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1321 filter. For example:
1322 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1323 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1325 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1326 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1332 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1334 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1335 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1338 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1339 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1341 * Shoutcast TV listings
1342 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1344 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1345 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1347 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1350 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1351 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1352 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1353 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1354 * JACK audio input support
1355 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1356 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1357 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1358 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1359 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1360 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1361 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1362 (available as a separate download).
1363 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1364 * RTMP input support
1365 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1366 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1367 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1369 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1370 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1373 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1374 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1375 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1376 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1378 * APEv1/2 tags support
1379 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1380 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1382 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1383 * TiVo Series 2 support
1384 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1389 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1390 * Flash Screen Video support
1391 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1392 * DosBox Capture support
1393 * Karl Morton's Video support
1394 * limited atrac3 support
1396 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1397 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1398 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1399 * H.264 PAFF support
1400 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1401 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1402 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1403 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1404 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1407 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1408 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1409 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1410 * AQTitle subtitles support
1411 * MKV USF subtitles support
1412 * HTML-based subtitles support
1413 * MPSub subtitles support
1414 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1415 * MPL2 subtitles support
1416 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1417 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1418 * Realtext subtitle support
1419 * DKS subtitle support
1420 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1421 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1424 * Flash Screen Video support
1425 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1427 Video outputs and filters:
1428 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1429 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1430 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1431 * New puzzle video output filter
1432 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1433 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1435 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1436 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1437 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1438 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1439 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1440 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1441 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1442 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1443 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1444 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1445 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1446 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1447 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1448 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1450 Audio outputs and filters:
1451 * Replay gain support
1452 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1453 new scaletempo audio filter)
1454 * New spatializer audio filter
1455 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1458 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1459 * New RTP payload formats:
1460 * Speex voice audio codec
1461 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1462 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1463 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1464 * DCCP transport for RTP
1465 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1470 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1471 end-user suitable way.
1472 * Improved user interaction
1473 * Improved mouse gestures
1474 * Vastly improved Update checker
1475 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1477 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1478 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1480 * Improved video output features
1481 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1482 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1483 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1484 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1485 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1487 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1488 if libncursesw is available.
1489 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1490 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1491 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1493 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1494 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1495 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1496 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1497 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1498 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1499 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1500 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1503 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1504 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1505 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1508 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1509 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1510 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1511 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1512 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1513 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1516 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1517 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1527 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1528 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1529 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1532 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1533 ----------------------------------
1536 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1539 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1540 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1541 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1542 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1543 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1544 * Updated Polish translation
1547 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1548 ----------------------------------
1551 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1552 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1553 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1556 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1557 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1558 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1559 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1560 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1561 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1562 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1563 to an unexpected application termination
1564 * New Serbian translation
1565 * Updated Romanian translation
1568 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1569 ----------------------------------
1572 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1573 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1574 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1575 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1576 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1577 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1578 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1579 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1582 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1583 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1584 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1585 * Fixed AAC resampling
1586 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1587 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1590 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1591 ----------------------------------
1594 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1595 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1596 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1597 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1598 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1601 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1602 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1603 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1604 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1605 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1608 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1609 ----------------------------------
1612 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1613 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1616 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1617 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1618 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1619 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1621 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1625 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1628 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1631 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1634 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1637 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1638 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1639 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1640 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1641 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1643 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1644 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1645 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1646 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1649 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1652 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1653 ----------------------------------
1656 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1657 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1658 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1660 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1661 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1663 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1664 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1667 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1669 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1670 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1671 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1672 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1673 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1674 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1675 two different movies
1676 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1677 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1678 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1681 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1684 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1685 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1686 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1687 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1690 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1691 ----------------------------------
1693 Various bugfixes, notably:
1694 * Windows Vista compatibility
1695 * Cropping in Direct3D
1696 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1697 * RSS filter string overflow
1699 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1701 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1702 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1705 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1706 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1709 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1712 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1715 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1718 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1719 ----------------------------------
1721 Various bugfixes, notably:
1722 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1723 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1724 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1725 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1726 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1727 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1730 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1731 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1734 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1736 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1737 * Diverse usability improvements
1738 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1739 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1740 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1743 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1744 ---------------------------------
1746 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1747 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1750 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1753 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1754 --------------------------------
1757 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1760 * Support for RTSP authentication
1761 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1762 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1763 * ATSC support for DVB input
1764 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1765 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1766 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1769 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1770 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1771 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1772 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1773 * Matroska WavPack support
1774 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1775 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1776 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1779 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1780 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1781 * Improved libcaca support
1785 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1786 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1788 * Systray support in skins
1790 * Support for Apple Remote control
1791 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1792 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1793 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1794 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1796 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1799 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1800 Windows 9x/ME users:
1801 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1802 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1803 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1804 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1805 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1807 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1808 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1817 * Updates to the libvlc API
1818 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1821 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1826 * Support for downloading updates
1830 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1831 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1832 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1833 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1835 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1836 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1837 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1840 * Cook (Real audio) support
1842 Playlist / Services discovery:
1843 * XSPF playlist support
1845 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1848 * New JACK audio output
1851 * New video filters:
1852 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1853 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1854 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1855 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1856 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1857 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1860 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1863 * System to inform the user and request information
1864 - HTTP authentication
1868 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1869 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1870 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1873 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1874 - Improved playlist handling
1875 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1877 - Embedded Video output
1878 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1879 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1880 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1881 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1882 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1884 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1885 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1888 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1891 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1892 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1893 * Growl "Now playing" support
1896 * Ability to log to syslog
1897 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1900 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1902 * A bit more automatic testing
1905 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1906 ---------------------------------
1909 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1910 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1913 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1914 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1917 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1920 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1921 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1927 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1930 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1938 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1939 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1940 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1943 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1944 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1945 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1946 * GnomeVFS input module
1947 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1948 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1951 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1952 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1953 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1956 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1957 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1963 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1964 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1967 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1968 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1969 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1972 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1974 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1975 - New extended controls panel
1976 - New bookmarks window
1977 - Fixed playlist sorting
1978 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1980 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1981 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1982 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1983 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1987 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1988 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1990 - Include macro to include other files
1994 * Should now work outside IE as well
1997 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2000 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2001 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2004 The following languages were added:
2008 * Simplified Chinese
2009 The following languages were re-added:
2013 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * Rewrite of the playlist
2019 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2020 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2021 * Preferences improvements:
2022 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2023 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2025 * Core image manipulation support
2026 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2027 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2028 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2029 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2030 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2031 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2032 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2033 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2034 * Access filter architecture
2035 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2036 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2040 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2041 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2042 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2043 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2044 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2045 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2046 * Massive Matroska improvements
2047 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2049 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2050 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2051 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2052 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2053 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2055 Decoders / Encoders:
2056 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2057 * PNG decoder/encoder
2058 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2059 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2062 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2065 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2066 * Brand new SAP module
2067 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2068 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2069 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2070 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2071 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2072 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2076 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2079 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2080 * Image file video output (png)
2081 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2082 * Improvements to wall video filter
2083 * Support for font color and opacity
2089 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2090 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2091 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2095 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2096 - Improved preferences
2097 - Improvements to the wizard
2098 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2100 - Redesigned playlist
2101 - Improved preferences
2103 - Support for multiple actions
2106 - Support for the new playlist system
2108 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2111 * Screensaver disabling fix
2112 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2113 * Support for no-decoration windows
2116 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2117 * The OpenGL video output is back
2118 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2119 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2120 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2121 is not yet available in the new module
2122 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2125 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2134 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2137 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2140 The following languages were added:
2146 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2147 --------------------------------
2150 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2151 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2154 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2155 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2156 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2159 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2162 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2165 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2168 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2169 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2170 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2174 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2176 * Support of playlist group announcement
2179 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2180 --------------------------------
2183 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2184 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2185 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2186 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2187 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2188 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2191 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2192 (Stream your desktop)
2193 * Improved DVD support:
2194 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2195 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2196 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2197 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2198 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2199 (selection of titles/chapters).
2202 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2203 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2204 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2205 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2206 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2207 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2208 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2209 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2210 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2211 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2214 * G.726 audio support
2215 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2216 * MPEG-4 text support
2217 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2218 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2219 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2223 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2224 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2225 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2226 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2227 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2228 * DVB subtitles encoder
2229 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2230 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2232 * Text track muxing for mp4
2233 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2234 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2235 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2236 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2237 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2238 * Improved ASF muxer
2240 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2241 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2242 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2245 * New audio equalizer filter
2246 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2247 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2248 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2249 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2252 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2253 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2254 with support for effects.
2255 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2256 - New filters can be streamed.
2257 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2258 - Centralized scaling and blending
2260 - "time", to display current time
2261 - "marq", to display a marquee
2264 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2265 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2266 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2267 * A few skins2 improvements
2268 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2269 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2270 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2271 * Improved CORBA control module
2274 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2275 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2276 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2279 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2280 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2281 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2284 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2285 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2286 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2287 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2288 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2291 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2294 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2295 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2298 * Server/client network synchronization module
2299 * VBrick streams fully supported
2300 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2304 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2305 --------------------------------
2308 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2309 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2310 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2311 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2314 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2315 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2316 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2317 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2318 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2319 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2320 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2323 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2324 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2325 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2326 * Improved directory access module.
2327 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2328 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2329 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2330 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2331 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2334 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2335 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2336 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2339 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2340 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2341 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2344 * Improved session announcement system.
2345 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2346 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2347 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2348 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2349 * Improved transrater.
2350 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2351 * New configuration system.
2352 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2355 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2356 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2357 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2358 * Supports scheduling.
2359 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2360 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2363 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2364 - Ability to embed video output.
2365 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2366 - Lots of improvements.
2367 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2368 - New design and set of icons.
2369 - Ability to embed video output.
2370 - Support for hotkeys.
2371 - Support for bookmarks.
2373 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2374 - Better hotkeys handling.
2377 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2378 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2379 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2380 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2383 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2384 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2385 * Improved Windows installer.
2391 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2392 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2395 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2396 ---------------------------------
2399 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2400 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2403 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2404 --------------------------------
2407 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2408 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2411 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2412 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2413 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2414 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2417 * Internal improvments
2418 * Improved import/export
2421 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2423 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2424 small and strange formats.
2426 * New MOD audio demux.
2427 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2428 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2429 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2430 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2433 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2434 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2435 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2441 * New opengl video output plugin.
2444 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2445 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2448 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2449 --------------------------------
2452 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2453 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2454 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2455 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2456 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2457 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2458 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2459 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2462 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2467 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2468 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2469 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2470 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2471 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2472 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2473 * Better Icecast support.
2474 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2475 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2478 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2479 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2480 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2481 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2482 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2483 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2484 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2487 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2488 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2489 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2490 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2491 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2492 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2493 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2494 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2495 * Preliminary RTP support.
2496 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2501 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2502 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2504 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2505 - Improvements and help in preferences
2506 - New streaming wizard
2507 - Revised Disc Open menu
2509 - Improvements of the standard pages
2510 - Support for new commands
2511 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2514 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2515 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2518 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2519 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2520 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2521 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2522 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2523 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2524 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2525 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2526 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2529 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2531 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2532 * Support for Panther.
2533 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2534 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2537 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2538 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2539 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2540 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2541 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2542 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2543 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2544 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2547 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2548 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2549 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2552 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2555 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2556 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2557 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2558 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2561 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2562 --------------------------------
2565 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2568 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2569 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2572 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2573 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2576 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2579 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2580 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2583 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2586 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2589 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2590 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2594 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2595 --------------------------------
2598 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2599 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2603 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2604 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2605 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2607 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2608 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2611 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2614 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2617 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2618 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2622 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2623 --------------------------------
2626 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2627 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2631 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2632 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2633 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2634 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2635 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2638 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2639 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2640 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2643 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2644 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2645 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2648 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2649 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2650 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2651 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2652 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2655 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2656 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2657 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2660 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2663 * Improved build system.
2664 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2665 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2666 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2667 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2670 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2671 --------------------------------
2674 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2677 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2678 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2679 * Video 4 Linux support
2680 * CD Digital Audio support
2681 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2684 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2685 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2686 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2687 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2690 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2691 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2692 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2693 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2694 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2695 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2696 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2699 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2700 * New HTTP remote control interface
2703 * 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.
2704 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2705 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2706 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2709 * New reset option for the preferences
2710 * You can set your language in the prefences
2711 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2712 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2713 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2714 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2717 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2718 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2719 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2722 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2723 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2724 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2725 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2726 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2727 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2728 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2729 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2730 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2731 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2734 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2735 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2736 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2737 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2738 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2739 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2740 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2743 * Interface localization
2744 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2745 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2746 * New full-featured Preferences window
2749 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2750 --------------------------------
2753 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2754 * support for skins at the interface level
2755 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2756 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2757 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2758 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2759 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2762 * fixed HTTP redirects
2763 * support for opening an entire directory
2764 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2765 * new video4linux access plug-in
2766 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2769 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2770 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2771 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2774 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2775 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2776 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2777 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2778 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2779 * new codec for raw I420 video
2780 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2783 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2784 (although it still misses some important features)
2785 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2788 * new HTTP output support
2789 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2790 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2793 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2796 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2799 * reorderable playlist
2800 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2801 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2802 * support for mono audio output devices
2803 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2804 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2805 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2806 * the messages window remembers more lines
2807 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2808 * http and ogg stream output options
2809 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2812 * new skinnable interface
2813 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2815 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2816 * support for FLAC audio format
2817 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2819 * network tab in the interface
2820 * "apply" handling in preferences
2823 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2824 ---------------------------------
2827 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2828 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2829 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2830 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2832 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2833 * DTS S/PDIF support
2836 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2837 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2838 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2839 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2842 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2843 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2846 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2849 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2852 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2854 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2855 * rc interface is now fully useable
2856 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2859 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2860 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2861 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2862 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2863 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2865 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2866 * support for mouse gestures
2867 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2870 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2871 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2874 * improved ID3 tag detection
2875 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2876 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2877 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2879 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2882 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2883 ---------------------------------
2886 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2887 English was set as the preferred language
2890 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2891 --------------------------------
2894 * new mouse gesture interface
2895 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2899 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2900 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2901 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2904 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2905 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2909 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2912 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2913 without the user consent
2916 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2918 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2919 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2920 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2923 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2924 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2925 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2926 * playlist enhancements
2927 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2928 * new step forward/step backward commands
2929 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2930 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2931 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2934 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2935 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2936 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2939 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2940 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2943 * native video output is working again
2944 * only commandline interface support
2945 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2948 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2949 --------------------------------
2952 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2953 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2954 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2955 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2956 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2957 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2958 and A/52 streams are supported)
2959 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2964 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2965 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2966 * VCD entry points support
2967 * VCD image file support
2970 * support for *.asf format
2971 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2972 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2973 * support for ogg encapsulation
2974 * support for raw DV format
2975 * support for *.wav format
2976 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2979 Stream discovery & playlists:
2980 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2981 * support for .m3u file format
2982 * support for .asx file format
2983 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2986 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2987 (only available with the .avi demux)
2988 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2989 * support for raw PCM data
2990 * support for Cinepak video codec
2991 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2992 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2993 * support for Xvid codec
2994 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2995 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2996 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2998 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3000 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3003 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3006 * new WxWindows interface
3007 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3008 device and the channels configuration
3009 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3010 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3011 format that VLC can play
3012 * new swedish translation
3013 * enhancements of the playlist window
3014 * new messages window to see debug info
3015 * fixed a few crashes
3018 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3019 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3020 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3021 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working