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 overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
21 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
22 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
23 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
24 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
25 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
26 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
27 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
28 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
31 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
32 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
33 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
34 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
35 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
38 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
39 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
40 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
43 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
44 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
45 * Ogg seeking improvements
46 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
49 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
50 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
51 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
52 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
53 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
54 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
55 and important cleanups and optimisations
56 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
59 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
60 * New video output for iOS platform
61 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
62 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
63 * Various vmem improvements
66 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
67 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
68 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
69 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
70 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
71 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
74 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
77 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
80 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
81 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
82 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
83 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
84 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
85 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
86 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
87 * Major rework of VoD support
88 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
89 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
90 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
91 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
92 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
93 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
94 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
95 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
96 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
99 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
102 * New capabilities for libVLC:
103 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
104 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
105 list of available audio and video filters
108 * asademux: use libass only
109 * fake: use the new image demuxers
110 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
112 * upnp: use upnp_intel
115 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
116 --------------------------------
119 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
122 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
123 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
124 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
125 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
128 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
130 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
131 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
132 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
133 * mp4 demuxer improvements
134 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
135 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
136 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
137 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
139 Miscellaneous fixes in:
140 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
141 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
142 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
143 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
144 * Configure and build system improvements
145 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
148 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
149 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
150 * New icelandic translation
153 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
154 --------------------------------
157 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
161 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
162 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
163 and stability reasons
166 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
170 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
173 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
174 ----------------------------------
177 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
180 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
181 ---------------------------------
184 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
185 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
186 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
187 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
190 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
193 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
194 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
195 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
196 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
199 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
200 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
201 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
203 Subtitles and renderer:
204 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
205 * Mark more freetype options as safe
206 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
207 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
208 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
211 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
212 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
213 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
214 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
217 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
218 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
221 * KDE device solid actions
223 * Transcode integer overflow
224 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
225 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
228 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
229 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
230 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
233 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
234 ----------------------------------
237 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
241 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
244 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
247 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
248 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
249 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
250 * Taglib thread-safety fix
253 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
257 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
260 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
263 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
264 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
266 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
270 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
271 * Miscellaneous fixes
274 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
275 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
277 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
278 * New Asturian translation
281 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
282 ----------------------------------
285 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
287 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
290 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
293 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
294 * Various fixes for Windows
297 * New Armenian translation
298 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
299 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
302 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
303 --------------------------------
306 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
308 * Fix folders opening from the interface
311 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
312 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
315 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
316 --------------------------------
319 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
320 * fix for podcasts parsing
321 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
324 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
325 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
328 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
329 * fix m3u playlists exports
332 * fix video autoresize behaviour
335 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
338 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
341 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
344 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
347 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
348 --------------------------------
351 * Avformat fps displaying fix
352 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
355 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
356 of mono streams, especially on Windows
359 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
360 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
361 * fix console output encoding
363 Interface and extensions:
364 * Youtube and other scripts updates
365 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
368 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
369 --------------------------------
372 * New capabilities for libVLC:
373 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
374 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
375 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
376 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
377 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
378 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
379 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
380 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
381 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
382 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
383 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
384 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
385 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
386 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
387 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
391 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
392 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
393 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
394 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
395 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
398 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
401 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
402 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
403 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
407 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
410 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
411 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
412 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
415 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
416 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
417 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
418 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
421 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
422 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
425 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
426 --------------------------------
428 Important changes for users:
429 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
430 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
432 Important changes for packagers:
433 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
434 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
435 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
436 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
437 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
439 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
441 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
442 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
443 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
444 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
445 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
448 * Support for the sftp protocol
449 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
450 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
451 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
452 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
453 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
456 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
457 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
458 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
460 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
461 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
462 * Invmem module improvements
463 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
464 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
465 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
466 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
467 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
468 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
469 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
470 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
471 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
472 * Support for VP8 codec
473 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
476 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
477 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
478 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
479 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
480 * Various EGP improvements
481 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
482 * Metadata and cover art improvements
485 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
486 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
487 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
488 * Podcast images are now displayed
491 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
492 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
493 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
494 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
495 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
496 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
497 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
498 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
499 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
500 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
501 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
504 * New content extensions lua framework
507 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
508 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
509 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
510 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
511 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
512 * NEON assembly audio converter module
513 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
516 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
517 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
518 * Service discovery based on libudev
519 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
522 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
523 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
524 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
525 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
526 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
527 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
528 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
531 * New smem module, streaming to memory
532 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
533 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
536 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
538 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
539 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
542 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
545 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
546 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
547 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
548 by Andy Matuschak et al.
549 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
550 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
551 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
554 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
555 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
558 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
559 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
560 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
564 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
565 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
566 * Improved Solaris port
569 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
570 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
573 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
574 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
575 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
576 * transrate: broken since too long
577 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
578 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
579 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
580 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
581 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
582 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
583 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
584 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
585 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
586 * cddax: use cdda instead.
587 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
588 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
589 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
590 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
593 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
594 --------------------------------
597 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
599 Decoders/Packetizers:
600 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
603 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
604 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
605 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
606 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
607 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
610 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
611 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
614 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
615 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
618 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
619 and Walloon translations updated
620 * Sinhala translation started
623 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
624 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
627 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
628 --------------------------------
631 * SubRip extra styles improvements
632 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
635 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
638 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
639 increase performance and fix x264 issues
642 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
643 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
644 Russian, Slovak translation updates
645 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
648 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
649 --------------------------------
652 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
653 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
656 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
657 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
660 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
661 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
664 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
667 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
668 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
671 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
672 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
675 * New Walloon translation
676 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
679 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
680 --------------------------------
683 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
684 regressions in most popular drivers
685 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
688 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
689 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
690 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
693 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
694 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
697 * Update for appletrailers lua script
698 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
699 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
700 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
701 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
704 * New udev module for linux
707 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
710 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
713 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
714 --------------------------------
717 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
718 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
719 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
722 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
723 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
726 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
727 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
730 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
733 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
734 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
735 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
736 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
739 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
740 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
741 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
742 - no support for Goom and SDL
743 - limited text rendering support
744 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
747 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
748 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
749 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
750 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
751 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
752 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
753 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
754 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
755 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
759 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
762 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
765 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
766 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
767 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
768 Arabic and French translation updates
771 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
772 --------------------------------
775 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
776 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
777 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
778 * Fix Dailymotion access script
779 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
780 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
783 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
784 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
787 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
788 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
789 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
792 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
795 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
796 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
799 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
800 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
801 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
802 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
803 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
804 * Fix various crashes
807 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
809 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
812 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
813 ---------------------------------
817 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
818 See 'Access:' for more info.
819 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
822 * Instantaneous pausing
823 * Frame-by-Frame playback
824 * Finer speed control
825 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
826 * Timeshift for most medias
827 * RTSP trickplay support
828 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
831 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
832 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
833 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
834 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
835 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
836 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
837 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
838 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
839 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
840 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
843 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
844 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
845 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
846 * Metadata for mod files are supported
847 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
848 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
849 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
852 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
853 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
856 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
857 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
858 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
859 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
860 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
861 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
862 * DVB scanning on linux
863 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
864 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
865 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
866 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
867 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
868 * MTP device access on Unix
869 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
870 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
873 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
874 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
875 Windows and Mac OS X.
878 * Export the playlist in HTML
879 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
880 * Better metadata handling and reading
882 Linux/Windows interface:
883 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
884 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
885 * Recently played items list
886 * Interface toolbar customizations
887 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
890 - Improvements on many dialogs
891 - New dialog for plugins listing
892 - Fixed-size mode for videos
893 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
894 * Better integration in GTK environments
897 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
898 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
899 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
900 * Additional usability improvements
903 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
904 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
905 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
906 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
907 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
910 * New Maemo port with:
911 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
912 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
915 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
918 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
919 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
920 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
921 * Support for latest iSight models
924 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
925 * Surround support for PulseAudio
928 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
929 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
930 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
931 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
932 The old image video output has been removed.
933 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
934 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
937 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
945 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
946 --------------------------------------
952 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
953 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
954 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
955 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
956 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
957 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
958 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
960 Various fixes to the following modules:
963 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
964 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
967 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
972 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
973 ---------------------------------
976 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
977 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
980 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
981 ---------------------------------
984 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
987 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
990 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
991 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
992 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
993 main controller window.
994 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
997 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1002 * Updates of other localizations
1005 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1006 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1007 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1008 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1009 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1012 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1013 ---------------------------------
1016 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1018 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1021 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1022 --------------------------------
1027 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1028 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1031 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1032 --------------------------------
1034 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1035 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1038 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1041 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1042 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1045 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1046 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1049 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1050 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1051 * Various fixed in playlist
1054 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1057 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1060 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1061 ------------------------------------
1063 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1064 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1067 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1068 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1069 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1072 * Stability fix for the video output.
1075 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1076 --------------------------------
1079 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1080 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1081 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1082 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1083 * Fixed update system bugs
1084 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1087 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1088 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1089 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1090 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1091 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1092 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1093 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1094 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1095 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1096 modern Mac OS X versions
1099 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1100 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1102 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1103 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1106 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1107 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1108 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1109 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1110 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1111 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1114 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1115 --------------------------------
1117 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1118 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1119 * Multiple bugfixes.
1122 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1123 --------------------------------
1125 * Multiple bug fixes.
1128 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1129 ---------------------------------
1133 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1134 recent to work correctly
1135 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1136 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1137 edit the ".hosts" file.
1138 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1139 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1140 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1141 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1142 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1143 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1144 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1145 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1146 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1147 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1148 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1149 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1150 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1151 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1152 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1153 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1154 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1155 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1156 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1157 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1158 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1159 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1160 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1161 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1162 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1163 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1164 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1165 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1166 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1167 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1168 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1169 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1170 and postproc modules.
1171 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1172 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1173 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1174 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1176 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1177 filter. For example:
1178 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1179 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1181 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1182 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1188 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1190 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1191 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1194 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1195 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1197 * Shoutcast TV listings
1198 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1200 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1201 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1203 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1206 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1207 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1208 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1209 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1210 * JACK audio input support
1211 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1212 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1213 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1214 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1215 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1216 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1217 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1218 (available as a separate download).
1219 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1220 * RTMP input support
1221 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1222 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1223 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1225 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1226 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1229 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1230 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1231 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1232 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1234 * APEv1/2 tags support
1235 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1236 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1238 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1239 * TiVo Series 2 support
1240 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1245 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1246 * Flash Screen Video support
1247 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1248 * DosBox Capture support
1249 * Karl Morton's Video support
1250 * limited atrac3 support
1252 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1253 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1254 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1255 * H.264 PAFF support
1256 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1257 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1258 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1259 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1260 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1263 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1264 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1265 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1266 * AQTitle subtitles support
1267 * MKV USF subtitles support
1268 * HTML-based subtitles support
1269 * MPSub subtitles support
1270 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1271 * MPL2 subtitles support
1272 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1273 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1274 * Realtext subtitle support
1275 * DKS subtitle support
1276 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1277 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1280 * Flash Screen Video support
1281 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1283 Video outputs and filters:
1284 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1285 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1286 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1287 * New puzzle video output filter
1288 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1289 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1291 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1292 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1293 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1294 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1295 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1296 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1297 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1298 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1299 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1300 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1301 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1302 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1303 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1304 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1306 Audio outputs and filters:
1307 * Replay gain support
1308 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1309 new scaletempo audio filter)
1310 * New spatializer audio filter
1311 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1314 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1315 * New RTP payload formats:
1316 * Speex voice audio codec
1317 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1318 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1319 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1320 * DCCP transport for RTP
1321 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1326 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1327 end-user suitable way.
1328 * Improved user interaction
1329 * Improved mouse gestures
1330 * Vastly improved Update checker
1331 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1333 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1334 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1336 * Improved video output features
1337 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1338 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1339 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1340 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1341 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1343 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1344 if libncursesw is available.
1345 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1346 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1347 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1349 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1350 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1351 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1352 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1353 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1354 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1355 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1356 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1359 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1360 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1361 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1364 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1365 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1366 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1367 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1368 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1369 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1372 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1373 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1383 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1384 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1385 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1388 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1389 ----------------------------------
1392 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1395 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1396 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1397 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1398 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1399 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1400 * Updated Polish translation
1403 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1404 ----------------------------------
1407 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1408 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1409 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1412 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1413 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1414 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1415 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1416 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1417 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1418 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1419 to an unexpected application termination
1420 * New Serbian translation
1421 * Updated Romanian translation
1424 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1425 ----------------------------------
1428 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1429 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1430 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1431 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1432 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1433 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1434 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1435 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1438 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1439 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1440 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1441 * Fixed AAC resampling
1442 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1443 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1446 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1447 ----------------------------------
1450 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1451 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1452 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1453 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1454 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1457 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1458 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1459 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1460 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1461 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1464 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1465 ----------------------------------
1468 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1469 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1472 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1473 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1474 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1475 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1477 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1481 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1484 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1487 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1490 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1493 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1494 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1495 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1496 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1497 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1499 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1500 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1501 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1502 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1505 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1508 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1509 ----------------------------------
1512 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1513 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1514 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1516 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1517 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1519 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1520 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1523 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1525 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1526 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1527 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1528 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1529 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1530 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1531 two different movies
1532 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1533 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1534 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1537 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1540 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1541 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1542 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1543 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1546 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1547 ----------------------------------
1549 Various bugfixes, notably:
1550 * Windows Vista compatibility
1551 * Cropping in Direct3D
1552 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1553 * RSS filter string overflow
1555 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1557 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1558 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1561 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1562 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1565 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1568 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1571 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1574 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1575 ----------------------------------
1577 Various bugfixes, notably:
1578 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1579 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1580 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1581 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1582 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1583 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1586 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1587 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1590 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1592 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1593 * Diverse usability improvements
1594 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1595 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1596 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1599 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1600 ---------------------------------
1602 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1603 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1606 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1609 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1610 --------------------------------
1613 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1616 * Support for RTSP authentication
1617 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1618 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1619 * ATSC support for DVB input
1620 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1621 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1622 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1625 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1626 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1627 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1628 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1629 * Matroska WavPack support
1630 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1631 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1632 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1635 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1636 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1637 * Improved libcaca support
1641 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1642 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1644 * Systray support in skins
1646 * Support for Apple Remote control
1647 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1648 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1649 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1650 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1652 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1655 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1656 Windows 9x/ME users:
1657 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1658 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1659 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1660 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1661 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1663 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1664 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1673 * Updates to the libvlc API
1674 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1677 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1678 --------------------------------
1681 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1682 * Support for downloading updates
1686 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1687 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1688 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1689 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1691 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1692 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1693 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1696 * Cook (Real audio) support
1698 Playlist / Services discovery:
1699 * XSPF playlist support
1701 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1704 * New JACK audio output
1707 * New video filters:
1708 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1709 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1710 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1711 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1712 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1713 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1716 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1719 * System to inform the user and request information
1720 - HTTP authentication
1724 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1725 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1726 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1729 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1730 - Improved playlist handling
1731 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1733 - Embedded Video output
1734 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1735 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1736 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1737 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1738 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1740 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1741 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1744 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1747 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1748 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1749 * Growl "Now playing" support
1752 * Ability to log to syslog
1753 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1756 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1758 * A bit more automatic testing
1761 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1762 ---------------------------------
1765 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1766 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1769 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1770 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1773 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1776 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1777 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1783 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1786 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1787 --------------------------------
1790 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1794 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1795 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1796 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1799 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1800 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1801 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1802 * GnomeVFS input module
1803 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1804 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1807 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1808 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1809 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1812 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1813 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1819 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1820 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1823 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1824 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1825 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1828 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1830 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1831 - New extended controls panel
1832 - New bookmarks window
1833 - Fixed playlist sorting
1834 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1836 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1837 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1838 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1839 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1843 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1844 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1846 - Include macro to include other files
1850 * Should now work outside IE as well
1853 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1856 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1857 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1860 The following languages were added:
1864 * Simplified Chinese
1865 The following languages were re-added:
1869 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1870 --------------------------------
1873 * Rewrite of the playlist
1875 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1876 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1877 * Preferences improvements:
1878 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1879 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1881 * Core image manipulation support
1882 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1883 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1884 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1885 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1886 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1887 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1888 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1889 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1890 * Access filter architecture
1891 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1892 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1896 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1897 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1898 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1899 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1900 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1901 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1902 * Massive Matroska improvements
1903 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1905 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1906 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1907 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1908 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1909 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1911 Decoders / Encoders:
1912 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1913 * PNG decoder/encoder
1914 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1915 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1918 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1921 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1922 * Brand new SAP module
1923 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1924 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1925 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1926 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1927 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1928 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1932 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1935 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1936 * Image file video output (png)
1937 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1938 * Improvements to wall video filter
1939 * Support for font color and opacity
1945 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1946 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1947 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1951 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1952 - Improved preferences
1953 - Improvements to the wizard
1954 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1956 - Redesigned playlist
1957 - Improved preferences
1959 - Support for multiple actions
1962 - Support for the new playlist system
1964 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1967 * Screensaver disabling fix
1968 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1969 * Support for no-decoration windows
1972 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1973 * The OpenGL video output is back
1974 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1975 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1976 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1977 is not yet available in the new module
1978 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1981 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1990 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1993 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1996 The following languages were added:
2002 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2003 --------------------------------
2006 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2007 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2010 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2011 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2012 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2015 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2018 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2021 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2024 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2025 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2026 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2030 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2032 * Support of playlist group announcement
2035 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2036 --------------------------------
2039 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2040 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2041 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2042 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2043 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2044 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2047 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2048 (Stream your desktop)
2049 * Improved DVD support:
2050 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2051 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2052 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2053 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2054 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2055 (selection of titles/chapters).
2058 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2059 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2060 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2061 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2062 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2063 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2064 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2065 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2066 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2067 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2070 * G.726 audio support
2071 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2072 * MPEG-4 text support
2073 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2074 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2075 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2079 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2080 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2081 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2082 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2083 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2084 * DVB subtitles encoder
2085 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2086 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2088 * Text track muxing for mp4
2089 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2090 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2091 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2092 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2093 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2094 * Improved ASF muxer
2096 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2097 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2098 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2101 * New audio equalizer filter
2102 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2103 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2104 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2105 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2108 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2109 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2110 with support for effects.
2111 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2112 - New filters can be streamed.
2113 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2114 - Centralized scaling and blending
2116 - "time", to display current time
2117 - "marq", to display a marquee
2120 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2121 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2122 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2123 * A few skins2 improvements
2124 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2125 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2126 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2127 * Improved CORBA control module
2130 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2131 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2132 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2135 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2136 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2137 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2140 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2141 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2142 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2143 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2144 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2147 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2150 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2151 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2154 * Server/client network synchronization module
2155 * VBrick streams fully supported
2156 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2160 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2161 --------------------------------
2164 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2165 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2166 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2167 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2170 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2171 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2172 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2173 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2174 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2175 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2176 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2179 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2180 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2181 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2182 * Improved directory access module.
2183 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2184 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2185 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2186 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2187 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2190 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2191 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2192 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2195 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2196 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2197 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2200 * Improved session announcement system.
2201 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2202 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2203 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2204 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2205 * Improved transrater.
2206 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2207 * New configuration system.
2208 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2211 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2212 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2213 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2214 * Supports scheduling.
2215 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2216 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2219 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2220 - Ability to embed video output.
2221 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2222 - Lots of improvements.
2223 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2224 - New design and set of icons.
2225 - Ability to embed video output.
2226 - Support for hotkeys.
2227 - Support for bookmarks.
2229 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2230 - Better hotkeys handling.
2233 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2234 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2235 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2236 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2239 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2240 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2241 * Improved Windows installer.
2247 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2248 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2251 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2252 ---------------------------------
2255 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2256 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2259 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2260 --------------------------------
2263 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2264 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2267 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2268 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2269 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2270 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2273 * Internal improvments
2274 * Improved import/export
2277 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2279 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2280 small and strange formats.
2282 * New MOD audio demux.
2283 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2284 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2285 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2286 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2289 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2290 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2291 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2297 * New opengl video output plugin.
2300 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2301 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2304 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2305 --------------------------------
2308 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2309 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2310 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2311 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2312 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2313 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2314 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2315 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2318 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2323 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2324 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2325 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2326 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2327 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2328 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2329 * Better Icecast support.
2330 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2331 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2334 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2335 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2336 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2337 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2338 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2339 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2340 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2343 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2344 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2345 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2346 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2347 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2348 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2349 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2350 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2351 * Preliminary RTP support.
2352 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2357 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2358 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2360 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2361 - Improvements and help in preferences
2362 - New streaming wizard
2363 - Revised Disc Open menu
2365 - Improvements of the standard pages
2366 - Support for new commands
2367 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2370 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2371 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2374 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2375 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2376 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2377 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2378 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2379 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2380 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2381 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2382 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2385 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2387 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2388 * Support for Panther.
2389 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2390 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2393 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2394 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2395 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2396 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2397 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2398 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2399 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2400 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2403 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2404 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2405 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2408 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2411 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2412 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2413 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2414 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2417 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2418 --------------------------------
2421 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2424 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2425 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2428 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2429 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2432 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2435 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2436 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2439 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2442 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2445 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2446 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2450 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2451 --------------------------------
2454 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2455 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2459 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2460 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2461 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2463 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2464 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2467 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2470 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2473 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2474 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2478 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2479 --------------------------------
2482 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2483 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2487 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2488 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2489 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2490 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2491 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2494 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2495 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2496 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2499 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2500 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2501 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2504 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2505 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2506 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2507 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2508 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2511 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2512 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2513 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2516 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2519 * Improved build system.
2520 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2521 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2522 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2523 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2526 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2527 --------------------------------
2530 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2533 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2534 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2535 * Video 4 Linux support
2536 * CD Digital Audio support
2537 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2540 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2541 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2542 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2543 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2546 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2547 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2548 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2549 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2550 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2551 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2552 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2555 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2556 * New HTTP remote control interface
2559 * 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.
2560 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2561 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2562 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2565 * New reset option for the preferences
2566 * You can set your language in the prefences
2567 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2568 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2569 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2570 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2573 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2574 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2575 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2578 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2579 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2580 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2581 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2582 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2583 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2584 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2585 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2586 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2587 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2590 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2591 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2592 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2593 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2594 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2595 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2596 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2599 * Interface localization
2600 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2601 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2602 * New full-featured Preferences window
2605 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2606 --------------------------------
2609 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2610 * support for skins at the interface level
2611 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2612 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2613 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2614 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2615 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2618 * fixed HTTP redirects
2619 * support for opening an entire directory
2620 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2621 * new video4linux access plug-in
2622 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2625 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2626 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2627 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2630 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2631 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2632 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2633 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2634 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2635 * new codec for raw I420 video
2636 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2639 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2640 (although it still misses some important features)
2641 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2644 * new HTTP output support
2645 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2646 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2649 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2652 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2655 * reorderable playlist
2656 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2657 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2658 * support for mono audio output devices
2659 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2660 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2661 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2662 * the messages window remembers more lines
2663 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2664 * http and ogg stream output options
2665 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2668 * new skinnable interface
2669 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2671 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2672 * support for FLAC audio format
2673 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2675 * network tab in the interface
2676 * "apply" handling in preferences
2679 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2680 ---------------------------------
2683 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2684 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2685 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2686 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2688 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2689 * DTS S/PDIF support
2692 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2693 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2694 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2695 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2698 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2699 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2702 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2705 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2708 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2710 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2711 * rc interface is now fully useable
2712 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2715 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2716 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2717 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2718 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2719 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2721 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2722 * support for mouse gestures
2723 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2726 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2727 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2730 * improved ID3 tag detection
2731 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2732 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2733 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2735 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2738 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2739 ---------------------------------
2742 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2743 English was set as the preferred language
2746 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2747 --------------------------------
2750 * new mouse gesture interface
2751 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2755 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2756 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2757 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2760 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2761 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2765 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2768 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2769 without the user consent
2772 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2774 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2775 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2776 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2779 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2780 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2781 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2782 * playlist enhancements
2783 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2784 * new step forward/step backward commands
2785 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2786 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2787 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2790 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2791 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2792 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2795 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2796 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2799 * native video output is working again
2800 * only commandline interface support
2801 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2804 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2805 --------------------------------
2808 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2809 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2810 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2811 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2812 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2813 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2814 and A/52 streams are supported)
2815 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2820 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2821 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2822 * VCD entry points support
2823 * VCD image file support
2826 * support for *.asf format
2827 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2828 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2829 * support for ogg encapsulation
2830 * support for raw DV format
2831 * support for *.wav format
2832 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2835 Stream discovery & playlists:
2836 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2837 * support for .m3u file format
2838 * support for .asx file format
2839 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2842 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2843 (only available with the .avi demux)
2844 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2845 * support for raw PCM data
2846 * support for Cinepak video codec
2847 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2848 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2849 * support for Xvid codec
2850 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2851 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2852 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2854 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2856 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2859 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2862 * new WxWindows interface
2863 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2864 device and the channels configuration
2865 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2866 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2867 format that VLC can play
2868 * new swedish translation
2869 * enhancements of the playlist window
2870 * new messages window to see debug info
2871 * fixed a few crashes
2874 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2875 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2876 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2877 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working