3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
35 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
36 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
39 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
42 * JACK audio input support
45 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
46 * MKV USF subtitles support
47 * HTML based subtitles support
48 * Flash Screen Video support
49 * CamStudio Screen Video support
50 * DosBox Capture support
51 * Karl Morton's Video support
52 * limited atrac3 support
53 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
56 * Flash Screen Video support
58 Video output and filters:
59 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
60 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
61 * New puzzle video output filter
62 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
63 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
65 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
66 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
67 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
69 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
70 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
71 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
72 was previously part of the mosaic module.
73 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
76 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
80 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
82 * Improved user interaction
83 * Improved mouse gestures
85 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
86 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
87 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
88 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
92 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
98 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
99 -----------------------------------------------------------
100 Various bugfixes, notably:
101 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
102 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
103 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
104 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
105 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
106 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
109 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
110 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
113 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
115 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
116 * Diverse usability improvements
117 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
118 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
119 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
122 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
123 ---------------------------------
126 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
129 * Fullscreen controller improvements
132 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
133 --------------------------------
136 * Shoutcast TV listings support
139 * Support for RTSP authentication
140 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
141 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
142 * ATSC support for DVB input
143 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
144 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
145 * Improved support for Flash Video files
148 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
149 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
150 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
151 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
152 * Matroska WavPack support
153 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
154 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
155 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
158 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
159 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
160 * Improved libcaca support
164 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
165 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
167 * Systray support in skins
169 * Support for Apple Remote control
170 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
171 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
172 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
173 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
175 * Notifications using notification-daemon
178 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
180 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
181 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
182 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
183 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
184 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
186 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
187 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
196 * Updates to the libvlc API
197 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
201 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
202 ---------------------------------
205 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
206 * Support for downloading updates
210 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
211 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
212 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
213 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
215 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
216 * Improved subtitles encoding support
217 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
220 * Cook (Real audio) support
222 Playlist / Services discovery:
223 * XSPF playlist support
225 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
228 * New JACK audio output
232 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
233 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
234 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
235 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
236 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
237 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
240 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
243 * System to inform the user and request information
244 - HTTP authentication
248 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
249 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
250 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
253 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
254 - Improved playlist handling
255 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
257 - Embedded Video output
258 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
259 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
260 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
261 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
262 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
264 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
265 - A bunch of new RPN functions
268 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
271 * Mac-Intel compatibility
272 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
273 * Growl "Now playing" support
276 * Ability to log to syslog
277 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
280 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
282 * A bit more automatic testing
284 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
285 ---------------------------------
288 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
289 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
292 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
293 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
296 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
299 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
300 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
306 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
308 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
316 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
317 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
318 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
321 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
322 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
323 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
324 * GnomeVFS input module
325 * Support for RTP packet reordering
326 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
329 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
330 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
331 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
334 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
335 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
341 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
342 Mixer and Dolby Surround
345 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
346 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
347 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
350 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
352 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
353 - New extended controls panel
354 - New bookmarks window
355 - Fixed playlist sorting
356 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
358 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
359 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
360 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
361 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
365 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
366 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
368 - Include macro to include other files
372 * Should now work outside IE as well
375 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
378 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
379 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
382 The following languages were added:
387 The following languages were re-added:
390 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
391 --------------------------------
394 * Rewrite of the playlist
396 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
397 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
398 * Preferences improvements:
399 - New organization, designed to improve usability
400 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
402 * Core image manipulation support
403 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
404 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
405 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
406 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
407 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
408 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
409 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
410 now separated by ':' instead of ','
411 * Access filter architecture
412 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
413 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
417 * Support for SOCKS proxy
418 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
419 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
420 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
421 * Better support for Kasenna streams
422 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
423 * Massive Matroska improvements
424 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
426 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
427 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
428 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
429 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
430 * Support for FTP over IPv6
433 * Dirac decoder and encoder
434 * PNG decoder/encoder
435 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
436 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
439 * New Record and Timeshift filters
442 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
443 * Brand new SAP module
444 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
445 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
446 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
447 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
448 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
449 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
453 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
456 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
457 * Image file video output (png)
458 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
459 * Improvements to wall video filter
460 * Support for font color and opacity
466 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
467 - Seeking support in VoD streams
468 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
472 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
473 - Improved preferences
474 - Improvements to the wizard
475 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
477 - Redesigned playlist
478 - Improved preferences
480 - Support for multiple actions
483 - Support for the new playlist system
485 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
488 * Screensaver disabling fix
489 * DirectShow tuner configuration
490 * Support for no-decoration windows
493 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
494 * The OpenGL video output is back
495 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
496 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
497 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
498 is not yet available in the new module
499 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
502 * Support for single-buffered overlay
511 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
514 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
517 The following languages were added:
523 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
524 -----------------------------------------------------
527 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
528 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
531 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
532 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
533 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
536 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
539 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
542 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
545 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
546 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
547 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
551 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
553 * Support of playlist group announcement
555 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
556 -----------------------------------------------------
559 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
560 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
561 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
562 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
563 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
564 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
567 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
568 (Stream your desktop)
569 * Improved DVD support:
570 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
571 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
572 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
573 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
574 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
575 (selection of titles/chapters).
578 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
579 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
580 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
581 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
582 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
583 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
584 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
585 * Improved Ogg demuxer
586 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
587 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
590 * G.726 audio support
591 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
592 * MPEG-4 text support
593 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
594 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
595 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
599 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
600 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
601 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
602 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
603 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
604 * DVB subtitles encoder
605 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
606 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
608 * Text track muxing for mp4
609 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
610 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
611 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
612 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
613 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
616 * H.263 RTP streaming support
617 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
618 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
621 * New audio equalizer filter
622 * Very trivial volume normalizer
623 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
624 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
625 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
628 * Roku HD1000 Video output
629 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
630 with support for effects.
631 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
632 - New filters can be streamed.
633 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
634 - Centralized scaling and blending
636 - "time", to display current time
637 - "marq", to display a marquee
640 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
641 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
642 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
643 * A few skins2 improvements
644 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
645 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
646 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
647 * Improved CORBA control module
650 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
651 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
652 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
655 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
656 * Experimental SVG rendering module
657 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
660 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
661 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
662 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
663 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
664 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
667 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
670 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
671 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
674 * Server/client network synchronization module
675 * VBrick streams fully supported
676 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
679 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
680 --------------------------------
683 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
684 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
685 * Improved HTTP daemon.
686 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
689 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
690 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
691 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
692 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
693 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
694 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
695 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
698 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
699 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
700 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
701 * Improved directory access module.
702 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
703 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
704 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
705 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
706 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
709 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
710 * mmsh streaming fixes.
711 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
714 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
715 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
716 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
719 * Improved session announcement system.
720 * Minimize threads usage by default.
721 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
722 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
723 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
724 * Improved transrater.
725 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
726 * New configuration system.
727 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
730 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
731 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
732 * Supports live streams and VoD.
733 * Supports scheduling.
734 * Telnet interface for vlm.
735 * HTTP interface for vlm.
738 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
739 - Ability to embed video output.
740 - Support for bitmap fonts.
741 - Lots of improvements.
742 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
743 - New design and set of icons.
744 - Ability to embed video output.
745 - Support for hotkeys.
746 - Support for bookmarks.
748 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
749 - Better hotkeys handling.
752 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
753 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
754 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
755 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
758 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
759 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
760 * Improved Windows installer.
766 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
767 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
769 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
770 ---------------------------------
773 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
774 * Playing MOD files is working now.
777 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
778 ---------------------------------
781 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
782 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
785 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
786 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
787 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
788 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
791 * Internal improvments
792 * Improved import/export
795 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
797 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
798 small and strange formats.
800 * New MOD audio demux.
801 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
802 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
803 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
804 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
807 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
808 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
809 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
815 * New opengl video output plugin.
818 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
819 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
821 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
822 ---------------------------------
825 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
826 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
827 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
828 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
829 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
830 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
831 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
832 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
835 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
840 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
841 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
842 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
843 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
844 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
845 * Reworked DVB tuning.
846 * Better Icecast support.
847 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
848 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
851 * Support for Theora video encoding.
852 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
853 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
854 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
855 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
856 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
857 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
860 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
861 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
862 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
863 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
864 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
865 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
866 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
867 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
868 * Preliminary RTP support.
869 * Fixes to SAP announces.
874 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
875 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
877 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
878 - Improvements and help in preferences
879 - New streaming wizard
880 - Revised Disc Open menu
882 - Improvements of the standard pages
883 - Support for new commands
884 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
887 * Many fixes to the SAP module
888 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
891 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
892 * Text subtitles autodetection.
893 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
894 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
895 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
896 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
897 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
898 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
899 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
902 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
904 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
905 * Support for Panther.
906 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
907 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
910 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
911 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
912 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
913 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
914 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
915 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
916 * Multimonitor support (untested).
917 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
920 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
921 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
922 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
925 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
928 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
929 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
930 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
931 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
933 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
934 ---------------------------------
937 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
940 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
941 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
944 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
945 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
948 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
951 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
952 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
955 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
958 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
961 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
962 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
965 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
966 ---------------------------------
969 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
970 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
974 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
975 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
976 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
978 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
979 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
982 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
985 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
988 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
989 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
992 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
993 ---------------------------------
996 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
997 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1001 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1002 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1003 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1004 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1005 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1008 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1009 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1010 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1013 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1014 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1015 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1018 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1019 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1020 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1021 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1022 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1025 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1026 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1027 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1030 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1033 * Improved build system.
1034 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1035 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1036 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1037 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1040 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1041 ---------------------------------
1044 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1047 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1048 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1049 * Video 4 Linux support
1050 * CD Digital Audio support
1051 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1054 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1055 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1056 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1057 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1060 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1061 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1062 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1063 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1064 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1065 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1066 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1069 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1070 * New HTTP remote control interface
1073 * 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.
1074 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1075 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1076 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1079 * New reset option for the preferences
1080 * You can set your language in the prefences
1081 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1082 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1083 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1084 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1087 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1088 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1089 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1092 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1093 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1094 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1095 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1096 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1097 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1098 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1099 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1100 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1101 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1104 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1105 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1106 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1107 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1108 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1109 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1110 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1113 * Interface localization
1114 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1115 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1116 * New full-featured Preferences window
1118 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1119 ---------------------------------
1122 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1123 * support for skins at the interface level
1124 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1125 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1126 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1127 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1128 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1131 * fixed HTTP redirects
1132 * support for opening an entire directory
1133 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1134 * new video4linux access plug-in
1135 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1138 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1139 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1140 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1143 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1144 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1145 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1146 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1147 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1148 * new codec for raw I420 video
1149 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1152 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1153 (although it still misses some important features)
1154 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1157 * new HTTP output support
1158 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1159 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1162 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1165 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1168 * reorderable playlist
1169 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1170 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1171 * support for mono audio output devices
1172 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1173 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1174 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1175 * the messages window remembers more lines
1176 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1177 * http and ogg stream output options
1178 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1181 * new skinnable interface
1182 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1184 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1185 * support for FLAC audio format
1186 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1188 * network tab in the interface
1189 * "apply" handling in preferences
1192 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1193 ---------------------------------
1196 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1197 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1198 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1199 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1201 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1202 * DTS S/PDIF support
1205 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1206 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1207 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1208 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1211 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1212 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1215 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1218 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1221 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1223 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1224 * rc interface is now fully useable
1225 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1228 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1229 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1230 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1231 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1232 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1234 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1235 * support for mouse gestures
1236 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1239 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1240 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1243 * improved ID3 tag detection
1244 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1245 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1246 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1248 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1251 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1252 ---------------------------------
1255 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1256 English was set as the preferred language
1259 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1260 --------------------------------
1263 * new mouse gesture interface
1264 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1268 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1269 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1270 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1273 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1274 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1278 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1281 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1282 without the user consent
1285 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1287 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1288 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1289 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1292 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1293 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1294 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1295 * playlist enhancements
1296 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1297 * new step forward/step backward commands
1298 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1299 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1300 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1303 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1304 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1305 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1308 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1309 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1312 * native video output is working again
1313 * only commandline interface support
1314 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1317 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1318 --------------------------------
1321 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1322 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1323 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1324 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1325 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1326 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1327 and A/52 streams are supported)
1328 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1333 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1334 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1335 * VCD entry points support
1336 * VCD image file support
1339 * support for *.asf format
1340 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1341 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1342 * support for ogg encapsulation
1343 * support for raw DV format
1344 * support for *.wav format
1345 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1348 Stream discovery & playlists:
1349 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1350 * support for .m3u file format
1351 * support for .asx file format
1352 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1355 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1356 (only available with the .avi demux)
1357 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1358 * support for raw PCM data
1359 * support for Cinepak video codec
1360 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1361 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1362 * support for Xvid codec
1363 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1364 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1365 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1367 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1369 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1372 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1375 * new WxWindows interface
1376 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1377 device and the channels configuration
1378 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1379 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1380 format that VLC can play
1381 * new swedish translation
1382 * enhancements of the playlist window
1383 * new messages window to see debug info
1384 * fixed a few crashes
1387 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1388 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1389 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1390 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working