1 Changes between 0.9.5 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
16 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items
22 * export the playlist in HTML
25 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
27 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
28 --------------------------------
30 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
31 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
34 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
37 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
38 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
41 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
42 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
45 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
46 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
47 * Various fixed in playlist
50 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
53 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
55 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
56 ------------------------------------
58 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
59 * Fixes several memory leaks.
62 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
63 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
64 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
67 * Stability fix for the video output.
70 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
71 --------------------------------
74 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
75 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
76 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
77 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
78 * Fixed update system bugs
79 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
82 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
83 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
84 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
85 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
86 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
87 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
88 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
89 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
90 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
91 modern Mac OS X versions
94 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
95 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
97 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
98 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
101 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
102 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
103 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
104 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
105 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
106 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
109 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
110 --------------------------------
112 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
113 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
117 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
118 --------------------------------
120 * Multiple bug fixes.
123 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
124 ---------------------------------
128 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
129 recent to work correctly
130 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
131 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
132 edit the ".hosts" file.
133 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
134 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
135 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
136 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
137 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
138 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
139 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
140 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
141 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
142 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
143 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
144 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
145 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
146 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
147 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
148 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
149 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
150 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
151 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
152 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
153 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
154 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
155 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
156 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
157 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
158 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
159 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
160 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
161 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
162 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
163 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
164 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
165 and postproc modules.
166 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
167 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
168 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
169 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
171 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
173 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
174 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
176 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
177 * Glide video output module has been removed.
183 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
185 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
186 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
189 * Vastly improved playlist support:
190 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
192 * Shoutcast TV listings
193 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
195 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
196 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
198 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
201 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
202 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
203 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
204 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
205 * JACK audio input support
206 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
207 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
208 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
209 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
210 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
211 * Experimental EyeTV access module
212 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
213 (available as a separate download).
214 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
216 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
217 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
218 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
220 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
221 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
224 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
225 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
226 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
227 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
229 * APEv1/2 tags support
230 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
231 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
233 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
234 * TiVo Series 2 support
235 * CD+G karaoke Files support
240 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
241 * Flash Screen Video support
242 * CamStudio Screen Video support
243 * DosBox Capture support
244 * Karl Morton's Video support
245 * limited atrac3 support
247 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
248 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
249 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
251 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
252 * NellyMoser ASAO support
253 * APE (Monkey audio) support
254 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
255 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
258 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
259 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
260 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
261 * AQTitle subtitles support
262 * MKV USF subtitles support
263 * HTML-based subtitles support
264 * MPSub subtitles support
265 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
266 * MPL2 subtitles support
267 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
268 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
269 * Realtext subtitle support
270 * DKS subtitle support
271 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
272 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
275 * Flash Screen Video support
276 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
278 Video outputs and filters:
279 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
280 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
281 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
282 * New puzzle video output filter
283 * Re-written motion detection video filter
284 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
286 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
287 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
288 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
289 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
290 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
291 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
292 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
293 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
294 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
295 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
296 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
297 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
298 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
299 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
301 Audio outputs and filters:
302 * Replay gain support
303 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
304 new scaletempo audio filter)
305 * New spatializer audio filter
306 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
309 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
310 * New RTP payload formats:
311 * Speex voice audio codec
312 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
313 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
314 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
315 * DCCP transport for RTP
316 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
321 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
322 end-user suitable way.
323 * Improved user interaction
324 * Improved mouse gestures
325 * Vastly improved Update checker
326 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
328 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
329 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
331 * Improved video output features
332 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
333 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
334 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
335 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
336 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
338 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
339 if libncursesw is available.
340 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
341 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
342 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
344 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
345 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
346 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
347 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
348 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
349 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
350 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
351 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
354 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
355 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
356 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
359 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
360 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
361 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
362 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
363 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
364 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
367 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
368 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
378 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
379 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
380 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
383 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
384 ----------------------------------
387 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
390 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
391 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
392 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
393 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
394 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
395 * Updated Polish translation
398 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
399 ----------------------------------
402 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
403 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
404 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
407 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
408 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
409 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
410 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
411 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
412 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
413 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
414 to an unexpected application termination
415 * New Serbian translation
416 * Updated Romanian translation
419 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
420 ----------------------------------
423 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
424 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
425 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
426 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
427 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
428 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
429 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
430 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
433 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
434 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
435 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
436 * Fixed AAC resampling
437 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
438 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
441 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
442 ----------------------------------
445 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
446 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
447 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
448 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
449 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
452 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
453 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
454 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
455 * Close MMS access on network timeout
456 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
459 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
460 ----------------------------------
463 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
464 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
467 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
468 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
469 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
470 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
472 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
476 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
479 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
482 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
485 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
488 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
489 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
490 encoding on multi-cpu systems
491 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
492 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
494 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
495 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
496 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
497 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
500 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
503 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
504 ----------------------------------
507 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
508 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
509 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
511 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
512 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
514 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
515 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
518 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
520 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
521 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
522 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
523 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
524 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
525 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
527 * Support for current Ogg file formats
528 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
529 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
532 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
535 * The automatic updating facility was removed
536 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
537 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
538 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
541 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
542 ----------------------------------
544 Various bugfixes, notably:
545 * Windows Vista compatibility
546 * Cropping in Direct3D
547 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
548 * RSS filter string overflow
550 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
552 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
553 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
556 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
557 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
560 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
563 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
566 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
569 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
570 ----------------------------------
572 Various bugfixes, notably:
573 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
574 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
575 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
576 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
577 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
578 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
581 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
582 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
585 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
587 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
588 * Diverse usability improvements
589 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
590 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
591 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
594 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
595 ---------------------------------
598 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
601 * Fullscreen controller improvements
604 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
605 --------------------------------
608 * Shoutcast TV listings support
611 * Support for RTSP authentication
612 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
613 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
614 * ATSC support for DVB input
615 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
616 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
617 * Improved support for Flash Video files
620 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
621 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
622 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
623 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
624 * Matroska WavPack support
625 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
626 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
627 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
630 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
631 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
632 * Improved libcaca support
636 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
637 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
639 * Systray support in skins
641 * Support for Apple Remote control
642 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
643 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
644 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
645 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
647 * Notifications using notification-daemon
650 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
652 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
653 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
654 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
655 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
656 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
658 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
659 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
668 * Updates to the libvlc API
669 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
672 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
673 --------------------------------
676 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
677 * Support for downloading updates
681 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
682 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
683 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
684 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
686 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
687 * Improved subtitles encoding support
688 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
691 * Cook (Real audio) support
693 Playlist / Services discovery:
694 * XSPF playlist support
696 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
699 * New JACK audio output
703 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
704 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
705 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
706 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
707 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
708 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
711 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
714 * System to inform the user and request information
715 - HTTP authentication
719 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
720 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
721 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
724 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
725 - Improved playlist handling
726 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
728 - Embedded Video output
729 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
730 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
731 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
732 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
733 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
735 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
736 - A bunch of new RPN functions
739 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
742 * Mac-Intel compatibility
743 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
744 * Growl "Now playing" support
747 * Ability to log to syslog
748 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
751 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
753 * A bit more automatic testing
756 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
757 ---------------------------------
760 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
761 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
764 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
765 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
768 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
771 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
772 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
778 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
781 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
782 --------------------------------
785 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
789 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
790 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
791 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
794 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
795 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
796 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
797 * GnomeVFS input module
798 * Support for RTP packet reordering
799 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
802 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
803 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
804 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
807 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
808 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
814 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
815 Mixer and Dolby Surround
818 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
819 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
820 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
823 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
825 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
826 - New extended controls panel
827 - New bookmarks window
828 - Fixed playlist sorting
829 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
831 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
832 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
833 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
834 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
838 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
839 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
841 - Include macro to include other files
845 * Should now work outside IE as well
848 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
851 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
852 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
855 The following languages were added:
860 The following languages were re-added:
864 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
865 --------------------------------
868 * Rewrite of the playlist
870 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
871 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
872 * Preferences improvements:
873 - New organization, designed to improve usability
874 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
876 * Core image manipulation support
877 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
878 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
879 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
880 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
881 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
882 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
883 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
884 now separated by ':' instead of ','
885 * Access filter architecture
886 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
887 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
891 * Support for SOCKS proxy
892 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
893 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
894 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
895 * Better support for Kasenna streams
896 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
897 * Massive Matroska improvements
898 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
900 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
901 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
902 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
903 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
904 * Support for FTP over IPv6
907 * Dirac decoder and encoder
908 * PNG decoder/encoder
909 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
910 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
913 * New Record and Timeshift filters
916 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
917 * Brand new SAP module
918 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
919 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
920 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
921 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
922 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
923 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
927 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
930 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
931 * Image file video output (png)
932 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
933 * Improvements to wall video filter
934 * Support for font color and opacity
940 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
941 - Seeking support in VoD streams
942 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
946 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
947 - Improved preferences
948 - Improvements to the wizard
949 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
951 - Redesigned playlist
952 - Improved preferences
954 - Support for multiple actions
957 - Support for the new playlist system
959 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
962 * Screensaver disabling fix
963 * DirectShow tuner configuration
964 * Support for no-decoration windows
967 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
968 * The OpenGL video output is back
969 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
970 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
971 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
972 is not yet available in the new module
973 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
976 * Support for single-buffered overlay
985 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
988 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
991 The following languages were added:
997 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
998 --------------------------------
1001 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1002 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1005 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1006 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1007 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1010 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1013 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1016 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1019 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1020 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1021 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1025 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1027 * Support of playlist group announcement
1030 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1035 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1036 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1037 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1038 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1039 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1042 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1043 (Stream your desktop)
1044 * Improved DVD support:
1045 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1046 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1047 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1048 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1049 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1050 (selection of titles/chapters).
1053 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1054 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1055 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1056 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1057 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1058 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1059 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1060 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1061 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1062 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1065 * G.726 audio support
1066 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1067 * MPEG-4 text support
1068 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1069 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1070 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1074 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1075 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1076 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1077 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1078 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1079 * DVB subtitles encoder
1080 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1081 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1083 * Text track muxing for mp4
1084 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1085 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1086 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1087 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1088 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1089 * Improved ASF muxer
1091 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1092 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1093 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1096 * New audio equalizer filter
1097 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1098 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1099 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1100 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1103 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1104 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1105 with support for effects.
1106 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1107 - New filters can be streamed.
1108 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1109 - Centralized scaling and blending
1111 - "time", to display current time
1112 - "marq", to display a marquee
1115 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1116 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1117 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1118 * A few skins2 improvements
1119 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1120 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1121 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1122 * Improved CORBA control module
1125 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1126 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1127 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1130 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1131 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1132 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1135 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1136 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1137 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1138 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1139 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1142 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1145 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1146 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1149 * Server/client network synchronization module
1150 * VBrick streams fully supported
1151 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1155 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1156 --------------------------------
1159 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1160 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1161 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1162 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1165 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1166 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1167 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1168 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1169 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1170 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1171 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1174 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1175 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1176 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1177 * Improved directory access module.
1178 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1179 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1180 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1181 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1182 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1185 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1186 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1187 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1190 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1191 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1192 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1195 * Improved session announcement system.
1196 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1197 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1198 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1199 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1200 * Improved transrater.
1201 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1202 * New configuration system.
1203 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1206 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1207 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1208 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1209 * Supports scheduling.
1210 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1211 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1214 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1215 - Ability to embed video output.
1216 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1217 - Lots of improvements.
1218 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1219 - New design and set of icons.
1220 - Ability to embed video output.
1221 - Support for hotkeys.
1222 - Support for bookmarks.
1224 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1225 - Better hotkeys handling.
1228 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1229 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1230 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1231 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1234 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1235 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1236 * Improved Windows installer.
1242 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1243 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1246 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1247 ---------------------------------
1250 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1251 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1254 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1255 --------------------------------
1258 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1259 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1262 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1263 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1264 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1265 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1268 * Internal improvments
1269 * Improved import/export
1272 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1274 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1275 small and strange formats.
1277 * New MOD audio demux.
1278 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1279 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1280 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1281 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1284 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1285 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1286 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1292 * New opengl video output plugin.
1295 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1296 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1299 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1300 --------------------------------
1303 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1304 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1305 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1306 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1307 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1308 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1309 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1310 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1313 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1318 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1319 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1320 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1321 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1322 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1323 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1324 * Better Icecast support.
1325 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1326 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1329 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1330 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1331 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1332 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1333 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1334 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1335 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1338 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1339 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1340 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1341 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1342 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1343 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1344 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1345 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1346 * Preliminary RTP support.
1347 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1352 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1353 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1355 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1356 - Improvements and help in preferences
1357 - New streaming wizard
1358 - Revised Disc Open menu
1360 - Improvements of the standard pages
1361 - Support for new commands
1362 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1365 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1366 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1369 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1370 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1371 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1372 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1373 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1374 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1375 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1376 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1377 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1380 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1382 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1383 * Support for Panther.
1384 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1385 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1388 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1389 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1390 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1391 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1392 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1393 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1394 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1395 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1398 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1399 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1400 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1403 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1406 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1407 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1408 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1409 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1412 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1413 --------------------------------
1416 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1419 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1420 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1423 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1424 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1427 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1430 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1431 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1434 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1437 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1440 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1441 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1445 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1446 --------------------------------
1449 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1450 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1454 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1455 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1456 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1458 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1459 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1462 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1465 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1468 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1469 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1473 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1478 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1482 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1483 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1484 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1485 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1486 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1489 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1490 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1491 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1494 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1495 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1496 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1499 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1500 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1501 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1502 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1503 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1506 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1507 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1508 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1511 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1514 * Improved build system.
1515 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1516 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1517 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1518 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1521 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1522 --------------------------------
1525 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1528 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1529 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1530 * Video 4 Linux support
1531 * CD Digital Audio support
1532 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1535 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1536 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1537 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1538 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1541 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1542 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1543 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1544 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1545 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1546 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1547 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1550 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1551 * New HTTP remote control interface
1554 * 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.
1555 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1556 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1557 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1560 * New reset option for the preferences
1561 * You can set your language in the prefences
1562 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1563 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1564 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1565 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1568 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1569 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1570 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1573 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1574 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1575 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1576 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1577 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1578 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1579 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1580 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1581 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1582 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1585 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1586 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1587 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1588 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1589 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1590 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1591 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1594 * Interface localization
1595 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1596 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1597 * New full-featured Preferences window
1600 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1601 --------------------------------
1604 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1605 * support for skins at the interface level
1606 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1607 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1608 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1609 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1610 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1613 * fixed HTTP redirects
1614 * support for opening an entire directory
1615 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1616 * new video4linux access plug-in
1617 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1620 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1621 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1622 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1625 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1626 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1627 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1628 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1629 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1630 * new codec for raw I420 video
1631 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1634 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1635 (although it still misses some important features)
1636 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1639 * new HTTP output support
1640 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1641 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1644 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1647 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1650 * reorderable playlist
1651 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1652 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1653 * support for mono audio output devices
1654 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1655 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1656 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1657 * the messages window remembers more lines
1658 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1659 * http and ogg stream output options
1660 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1663 * new skinnable interface
1664 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1666 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1667 * support for FLAC audio format
1668 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1670 * network tab in the interface
1671 * "apply" handling in preferences
1674 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1675 ---------------------------------
1678 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1679 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1680 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1681 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1683 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1684 * DTS S/PDIF support
1687 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1688 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1689 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1690 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1693 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1694 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1697 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1700 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1703 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1705 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1706 * rc interface is now fully useable
1707 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1710 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1711 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1712 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1713 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1714 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1716 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1717 * support for mouse gestures
1718 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1721 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1722 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1725 * improved ID3 tag detection
1726 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1727 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1728 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1730 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1733 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1734 ---------------------------------
1737 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1738 English was set as the preferred language
1741 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1742 --------------------------------
1745 * new mouse gesture interface
1746 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1750 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1751 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1752 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1755 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1756 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1760 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1763 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1764 without the user consent
1767 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1769 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1770 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1771 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1774 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1775 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1776 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1777 * playlist enhancements
1778 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1779 * new step forward/step backward commands
1780 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1781 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1782 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1785 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1786 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1787 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1790 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1791 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1794 * native video output is working again
1795 * only commandline interface support
1796 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1799 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1800 --------------------------------
1803 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1804 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1805 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1806 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1807 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1808 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1809 and A/52 streams are supported)
1810 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1815 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1816 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1817 * VCD entry points support
1818 * VCD image file support
1821 * support for *.asf format
1822 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1823 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1824 * support for ogg encapsulation
1825 * support for raw DV format
1826 * support for *.wav format
1827 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1830 Stream discovery & playlists:
1831 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1832 * support for .m3u file format
1833 * support for .asx file format
1834 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1837 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1838 (only available with the .avi demux)
1839 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1840 * support for raw PCM data
1841 * support for Cinepak video codec
1842 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1843 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1844 * support for Xvid codec
1845 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1846 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1847 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1849 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1851 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1854 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1857 * new WxWindows interface
1858 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1859 device and the channels configuration
1860 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1861 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1862 format that VLC can play
1863 * new swedish translation
1864 * enhancements of the playlist window
1865 * new messages window to see debug info
1866 * fixed a few crashes
1869 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1870 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1871 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1872 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working