1 Changes between 0.9.6 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
6 * Frame-By-Frame Support
8 * RTSP trickplay support
11 * RTSP authentication with Darwing Streaming Server
14 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
15 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
19 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
20 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
22 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
25 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (support in Ogg, in TS)
28 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
29 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
30 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
32 Linux/Windows interface:
33 * Recently played items list
36 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
39 * New Maemo port with:
40 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
41 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
44 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
47 * export the playlist in HTML
48 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
51 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
53 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
54 --------------------------------
59 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
60 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
62 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
63 --------------------------------
65 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
66 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
69 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
72 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
73 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
76 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
77 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
80 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
81 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
82 * Various fixed in playlist
85 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
88 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
90 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
91 ------------------------------------
93 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
94 * Fixes several memory leaks.
97 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
98 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
99 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
102 * Stability fix for the video output.
105 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
106 --------------------------------
109 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
110 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
111 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
112 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
113 * Fixed update system bugs
114 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
117 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
118 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
119 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
120 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
121 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
122 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
123 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
124 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
125 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
126 modern Mac OS X versions
129 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
130 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
132 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
133 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
136 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
137 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
138 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
139 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
140 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
141 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
144 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
145 --------------------------------
147 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
148 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
152 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
153 --------------------------------
155 * Multiple bug fixes.
158 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
159 ---------------------------------
163 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
164 recent to work correctly
165 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
166 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
167 edit the ".hosts" file.
168 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
169 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
170 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
171 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
172 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
173 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
174 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
175 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
176 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
177 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
178 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
179 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
180 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
181 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
182 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
183 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
184 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
185 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
186 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
187 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
188 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
189 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
190 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
191 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
192 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
193 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
194 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
195 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
196 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
197 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
198 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
199 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
200 and postproc modules.
201 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
202 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
203 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
204 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
206 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
208 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
209 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
211 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
212 * Glide video output module has been removed.
218 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
220 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
221 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
224 * Vastly improved playlist support:
225 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
227 * Shoutcast TV listings
228 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
230 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
231 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
233 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
236 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
237 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
238 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
239 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
240 * JACK audio input support
241 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
242 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
243 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
244 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
245 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
246 * Experimental EyeTV access module
247 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
248 (available as a separate download).
249 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
251 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
252 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
253 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
255 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
256 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
259 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
260 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
261 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
262 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
264 * APEv1/2 tags support
265 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
266 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
268 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
269 * TiVo Series 2 support
270 * CD+G karaoke Files support
275 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
276 * Flash Screen Video support
277 * CamStudio Screen Video support
278 * DosBox Capture support
279 * Karl Morton's Video support
280 * limited atrac3 support
282 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
283 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
284 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
286 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
287 * NellyMoser ASAO support
288 * APE (Monkey audio) support
289 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
290 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
293 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
294 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
295 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
296 * AQTitle subtitles support
297 * MKV USF subtitles support
298 * HTML-based subtitles support
299 * MPSub subtitles support
300 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
301 * MPL2 subtitles support
302 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
303 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
304 * Realtext subtitle support
305 * DKS subtitle support
306 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
307 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
310 * Flash Screen Video support
311 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
313 Video outputs and filters:
314 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
315 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
316 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
317 * New puzzle video output filter
318 * Re-written motion detection video filter
319 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
321 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
322 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
323 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
324 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
325 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
326 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
327 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
328 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
329 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
330 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
331 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
332 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
333 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
334 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
336 Audio outputs and filters:
337 * Replay gain support
338 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
339 new scaletempo audio filter)
340 * New spatializer audio filter
341 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
344 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
345 * New RTP payload formats:
346 * Speex voice audio codec
347 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
348 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
349 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
350 * DCCP transport for RTP
351 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
356 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
357 end-user suitable way.
358 * Improved user interaction
359 * Improved mouse gestures
360 * Vastly improved Update checker
361 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
363 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
364 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
366 * Improved video output features
367 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
368 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
369 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
370 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
371 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
373 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
374 if libncursesw is available.
375 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
376 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
377 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
379 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
380 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
381 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
382 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
383 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
384 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
385 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
386 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
389 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
390 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
391 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
394 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
395 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
396 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
397 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
398 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
399 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
402 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
403 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
413 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
414 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
415 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
418 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
419 ----------------------------------
422 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
425 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
426 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
427 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
428 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
429 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
430 * Updated Polish translation
433 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
434 ----------------------------------
437 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
438 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
439 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
442 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
443 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
444 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
445 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
446 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
447 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
448 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
449 to an unexpected application termination
450 * New Serbian translation
451 * Updated Romanian translation
454 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
455 ----------------------------------
458 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
459 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
460 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
461 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
462 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
463 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
464 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
465 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
468 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
469 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
470 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
471 * Fixed AAC resampling
472 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
473 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
476 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
477 ----------------------------------
480 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
481 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
482 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
483 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
484 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
487 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
488 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
489 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
490 * Close MMS access on network timeout
491 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
494 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
495 ----------------------------------
498 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
499 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
502 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
503 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
504 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
505 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
507 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
511 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
514 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
517 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
520 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
523 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
524 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
525 encoding on multi-cpu systems
526 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
527 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
529 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
530 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
531 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
532 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
535 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
538 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
539 ----------------------------------
542 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
543 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
544 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
546 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
547 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
549 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
550 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
553 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
555 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
556 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
557 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
558 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
559 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
560 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
562 * Support for current Ogg file formats
563 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
564 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
567 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
570 * The automatic updating facility was removed
571 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
572 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
573 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
576 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
577 ----------------------------------
579 Various bugfixes, notably:
580 * Windows Vista compatibility
581 * Cropping in Direct3D
582 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
583 * RSS filter string overflow
585 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
587 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
588 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
591 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
592 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
595 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
598 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
601 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
604 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
605 ----------------------------------
607 Various bugfixes, notably:
608 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
609 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
610 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
611 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
612 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
613 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
616 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
617 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
620 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
622 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
623 * Diverse usability improvements
624 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
625 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
626 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
629 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
630 ---------------------------------
633 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
636 * Fullscreen controller improvements
639 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
640 --------------------------------
643 * Shoutcast TV listings support
646 * Support for RTSP authentication
647 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
648 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
649 * ATSC support for DVB input
650 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
651 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
652 * Improved support for Flash Video files
655 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
656 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
657 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
658 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
659 * Matroska WavPack support
660 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
661 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
662 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
665 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
666 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
667 * Improved libcaca support
671 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
672 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
674 * Systray support in skins
676 * Support for Apple Remote control
677 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
678 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
679 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
680 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
682 * Notifications using notification-daemon
685 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
687 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
688 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
689 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
690 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
691 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
693 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
694 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
703 * Updates to the libvlc API
704 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
707 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
708 --------------------------------
711 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
712 * Support for downloading updates
716 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
717 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
718 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
719 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
721 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
722 * Improved subtitles encoding support
723 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
726 * Cook (Real audio) support
728 Playlist / Services discovery:
729 * XSPF playlist support
731 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
734 * New JACK audio output
738 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
739 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
740 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
741 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
742 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
743 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
746 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
749 * System to inform the user and request information
750 - HTTP authentication
754 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
755 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
756 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
759 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
760 - Improved playlist handling
761 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
763 - Embedded Video output
764 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
765 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
766 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
767 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
768 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
770 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
771 - A bunch of new RPN functions
774 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
777 * Mac-Intel compatibility
778 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
779 * Growl "Now playing" support
782 * Ability to log to syslog
783 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
786 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
788 * A bit more automatic testing
791 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
792 ---------------------------------
795 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
796 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
799 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
800 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
803 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
806 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
807 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
813 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
816 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
817 --------------------------------
820 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
824 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
825 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
826 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
829 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
830 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
831 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
832 * GnomeVFS input module
833 * Support for RTP packet reordering
834 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
837 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
838 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
839 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
842 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
843 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
849 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
850 Mixer and Dolby Surround
853 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
854 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
855 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
858 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
860 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
861 - New extended controls panel
862 - New bookmarks window
863 - Fixed playlist sorting
864 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
866 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
867 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
868 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
869 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
873 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
874 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
876 - Include macro to include other files
880 * Should now work outside IE as well
883 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
886 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
887 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
890 The following languages were added:
895 The following languages were re-added:
899 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
900 --------------------------------
903 * Rewrite of the playlist
905 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
906 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
907 * Preferences improvements:
908 - New organization, designed to improve usability
909 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
911 * Core image manipulation support
912 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
913 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
914 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
915 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
916 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
917 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
918 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
919 now separated by ':' instead of ','
920 * Access filter architecture
921 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
922 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
926 * Support for SOCKS proxy
927 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
928 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
929 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
930 * Better support for Kasenna streams
931 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
932 * Massive Matroska improvements
933 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
935 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
936 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
937 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
938 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
939 * Support for FTP over IPv6
942 * Dirac decoder and encoder
943 * PNG decoder/encoder
944 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
945 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
948 * New Record and Timeshift filters
951 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
952 * Brand new SAP module
953 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
954 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
955 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
956 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
957 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
958 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
962 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
965 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
966 * Image file video output (png)
967 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
968 * Improvements to wall video filter
969 * Support for font color and opacity
975 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
976 - Seeking support in VoD streams
977 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
981 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
982 - Improved preferences
983 - Improvements to the wizard
984 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
986 - Redesigned playlist
987 - Improved preferences
989 - Support for multiple actions
992 - Support for the new playlist system
994 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
997 * Screensaver disabling fix
998 * DirectShow tuner configuration
999 * Support for no-decoration windows
1002 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1003 * The OpenGL video output is back
1004 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1005 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1006 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1007 is not yet available in the new module
1008 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1011 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1020 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1023 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1026 The following languages were added:
1032 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1033 --------------------------------
1036 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1037 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1040 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1041 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1042 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1045 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1048 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1051 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1054 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1055 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1056 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1060 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1062 * Support of playlist group announcement
1065 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1066 --------------------------------
1069 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1070 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1071 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1072 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1073 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1074 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1077 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1078 (Stream your desktop)
1079 * Improved DVD support:
1080 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1081 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1082 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1083 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1084 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1085 (selection of titles/chapters).
1088 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1089 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1090 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1091 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1092 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1093 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1094 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1095 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1096 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1097 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1100 * G.726 audio support
1101 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1102 * MPEG-4 text support
1103 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1104 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1105 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1109 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1110 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1111 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1112 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1113 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1114 * DVB subtitles encoder
1115 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1116 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1118 * Text track muxing for mp4
1119 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1120 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1121 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1122 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1123 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1124 * Improved ASF muxer
1126 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1127 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1128 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1131 * New audio equalizer filter
1132 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1133 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1134 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1135 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1138 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1139 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1140 with support for effects.
1141 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1142 - New filters can be streamed.
1143 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1144 - Centralized scaling and blending
1146 - "time", to display current time
1147 - "marq", to display a marquee
1150 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1151 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1152 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1153 * A few skins2 improvements
1154 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1155 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1156 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1157 * Improved CORBA control module
1160 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1161 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1162 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1165 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1166 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1167 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1170 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1171 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1172 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1173 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1174 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1177 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1180 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1181 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1184 * Server/client network synchronization module
1185 * VBrick streams fully supported
1186 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1190 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1191 --------------------------------
1194 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1195 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1196 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1197 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1200 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1201 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1202 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1203 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1204 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1205 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1206 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1209 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1210 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1211 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1212 * Improved directory access module.
1213 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1214 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1215 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1216 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1217 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1220 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1221 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1222 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1225 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1226 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1227 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1230 * Improved session announcement system.
1231 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1232 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1233 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1234 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1235 * Improved transrater.
1236 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1237 * New configuration system.
1238 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1241 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1242 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1243 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1244 * Supports scheduling.
1245 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1246 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1249 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1250 - Ability to embed video output.
1251 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1252 - Lots of improvements.
1253 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1254 - New design and set of icons.
1255 - Ability to embed video output.
1256 - Support for hotkeys.
1257 - Support for bookmarks.
1259 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1260 - Better hotkeys handling.
1263 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1264 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1265 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1266 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1269 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1270 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1271 * Improved Windows installer.
1277 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1278 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1281 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1282 ---------------------------------
1285 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1286 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1289 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1290 --------------------------------
1293 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1294 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1297 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1298 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1299 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1300 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1303 * Internal improvments
1304 * Improved import/export
1307 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1309 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1310 small and strange formats.
1312 * New MOD audio demux.
1313 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1314 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1315 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1316 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1319 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1320 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1321 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1327 * New opengl video output plugin.
1330 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1331 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1334 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1335 --------------------------------
1338 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1339 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1340 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1341 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1342 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1343 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1344 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1345 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1348 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1353 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1354 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1355 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1356 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1357 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1358 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1359 * Better Icecast support.
1360 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1361 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1364 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1365 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1366 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1367 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1368 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1369 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1370 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1373 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1374 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1375 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1376 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1377 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1378 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1379 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1380 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1381 * Preliminary RTP support.
1382 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1387 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1388 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1390 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1391 - Improvements and help in preferences
1392 - New streaming wizard
1393 - Revised Disc Open menu
1395 - Improvements of the standard pages
1396 - Support for new commands
1397 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1400 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1401 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1404 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1405 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1406 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1407 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1408 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1409 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1410 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1411 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1412 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1415 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1417 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1418 * Support for Panther.
1419 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1420 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1423 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1424 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1425 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1426 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1427 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1428 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1429 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1430 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1433 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1434 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1435 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1438 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1441 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1442 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1443 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1444 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1447 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1448 --------------------------------
1451 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1454 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1455 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1458 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1459 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1462 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1465 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1466 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1469 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1472 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1475 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1476 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1480 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1481 --------------------------------
1484 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1485 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1489 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1490 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1491 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1493 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1494 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1497 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1500 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1503 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1504 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1508 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1509 --------------------------------
1512 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1513 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1517 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1518 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1519 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1520 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1521 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1524 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1525 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1526 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1529 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1530 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1531 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1534 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1535 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1536 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1537 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1538 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1541 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1542 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1543 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1546 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1549 * Improved build system.
1550 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1551 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1552 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1553 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1556 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1557 --------------------------------
1560 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1563 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1564 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1565 * Video 4 Linux support
1566 * CD Digital Audio support
1567 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1570 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1571 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1572 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1573 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1576 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1577 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1578 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1579 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1580 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1581 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1582 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1585 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1586 * New HTTP remote control interface
1589 * 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.
1590 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1591 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1592 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1595 * New reset option for the preferences
1596 * You can set your language in the prefences
1597 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1598 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1599 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1600 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1603 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1604 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1605 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1608 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1609 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1610 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1611 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1612 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1613 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1614 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1615 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1616 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1617 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1620 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1621 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1622 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1623 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1624 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1625 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1626 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1629 * Interface localization
1630 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1631 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1632 * New full-featured Preferences window
1635 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1636 --------------------------------
1639 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1640 * support for skins at the interface level
1641 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1642 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1643 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1644 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1645 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1648 * fixed HTTP redirects
1649 * support for opening an entire directory
1650 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1651 * new video4linux access plug-in
1652 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1655 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1656 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1657 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1660 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1661 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1662 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1663 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1664 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1665 * new codec for raw I420 video
1666 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1669 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1670 (although it still misses some important features)
1671 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1674 * new HTTP output support
1675 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1676 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1679 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1682 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1685 * reorderable playlist
1686 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1687 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1688 * support for mono audio output devices
1689 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1690 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1691 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1692 * the messages window remembers more lines
1693 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1694 * http and ogg stream output options
1695 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1698 * new skinnable interface
1699 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1701 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1702 * support for FLAC audio format
1703 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1705 * network tab in the interface
1706 * "apply" handling in preferences
1709 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1710 ---------------------------------
1713 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1714 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1715 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1716 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1718 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1719 * DTS S/PDIF support
1722 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1723 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1724 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1725 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1728 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1729 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1732 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1735 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1738 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1740 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1741 * rc interface is now fully useable
1742 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1745 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1746 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1747 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1748 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1749 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1751 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1752 * support for mouse gestures
1753 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1756 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1757 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1760 * improved ID3 tag detection
1761 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1762 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1763 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1765 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1768 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1769 ---------------------------------
1772 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1773 English was set as the preferred language
1776 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * new mouse gesture interface
1781 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1785 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1786 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1787 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1790 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1791 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1795 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1798 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1799 without the user consent
1802 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1804 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1805 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1806 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1809 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1810 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1811 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1812 * playlist enhancements
1813 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1814 * new step forward/step backward commands
1815 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1816 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1817 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1820 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1821 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1822 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1825 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1826 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1829 * native video output is working again
1830 * only commandline interface support
1831 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1834 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1839 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1840 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1841 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1842 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1843 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1844 and A/52 streams are supported)
1845 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1850 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1851 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1852 * VCD entry points support
1853 * VCD image file support
1856 * support for *.asf format
1857 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1858 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1859 * support for ogg encapsulation
1860 * support for raw DV format
1861 * support for *.wav format
1862 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1865 Stream discovery & playlists:
1866 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1867 * support for .m3u file format
1868 * support for .asx file format
1869 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1872 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1873 (only available with the .avi demux)
1874 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1875 * support for raw PCM data
1876 * support for Cinepak video codec
1877 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1878 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1879 * support for Xvid codec
1880 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1881 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1882 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1884 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1886 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1889 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1892 * new WxWindows interface
1893 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1894 device and the channels configuration
1895 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1896 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1897 format that VLC can play
1898 * new swedish translation
1899 * enhancements of the playlist window
1900 * new messages window to see debug info
1901 * fixed a few crashes
1904 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1905 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1906 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1907 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working