1 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input module to feed VLC from data in memory
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
19 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
20 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
21 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
22 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
23 * Various EGP improvements
26 * WPL playlist support
27 * ZPL playlist support
28 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
29 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
30 * Podcast images are now displayed
33 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
34 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
35 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
36 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
37 * NEON assembly audio converter module
40 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
41 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
42 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
43 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
44 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
45 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
48 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
49 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
50 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
51 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
52 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
53 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
56 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
59 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
60 * Service discovery based on libudev
63 * New smem module, streaming to memory
66 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
69 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
72 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
79 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead)
80 * HAL (use libudev instead)
81 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
82 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
83 * XvMC accelerated modules
85 * opie, qte and qte_main
88 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
89 --------------------------------
92 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
93 regressions in most popular drivers
94 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
97 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
98 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
99 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
102 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
103 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
106 * Update for appletrailers lua script
107 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
108 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
109 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
110 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
113 * New udev module for linux
116 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
119 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
122 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
123 --------------------------------
126 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
127 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
128 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
131 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
132 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
135 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
136 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
139 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
142 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
143 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
144 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
145 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
148 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
149 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
150 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
151 - no support for Goom and SDL
152 - limited text rendering support
153 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
156 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
157 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
158 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
159 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
160 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
161 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
162 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
163 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
164 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
168 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
171 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
174 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
175 --------------------------------
178 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
179 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
180 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
181 * Fix Dailymotion access script
182 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
183 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
186 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
187 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
190 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
191 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
192 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
195 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
198 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
199 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
202 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
203 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
204 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
205 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
206 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
207 * Fix various crashes
210 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
212 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
215 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
216 ---------------------------------
220 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
221 See 'Access:' for more info.
222 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
225 * Instantaneous pausing
226 * Frame-by-Frame playback
227 * Finer speed control
228 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
229 * Timeshift for most medias
230 * RTSP trickplay support
231 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
234 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
235 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
236 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
237 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
238 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
239 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
240 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
241 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
242 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
243 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
246 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
247 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
248 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
249 * Metadata for mod files are supported
250 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
251 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
252 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
255 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
256 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
259 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
260 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
261 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
262 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
263 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
264 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
265 * DVB scanning on linux
266 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
267 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
268 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
269 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
270 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
271 * MTP device access on Unix
272 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
273 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
276 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
277 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
278 Windows and Mac OS X.
281 * Export the playlist in HTML
282 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
283 * Better metadata handling and reading
285 Linux/Windows interface:
286 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
287 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
288 * Recently played items list
289 * Interface toolbar customizations
290 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
293 - Improvements on many dialogs
294 - New dialog for plugins listing
295 - Fixed-size mode for videos
296 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
297 * Better integration in GTK environments
300 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
301 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
302 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
303 * Additional usability improvements
306 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
307 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
308 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
309 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
310 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
313 * New Maemo port with:
314 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
315 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
318 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
321 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
322 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
323 * Support for latest iSight models
326 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
327 * Surround support for PulseAudio
330 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
331 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
332 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
333 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
334 The old image video output has been removed.
335 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
336 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
339 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
344 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
345 ---------------------------------
348 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
349 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
352 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
353 ---------------------------------
356 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
359 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
362 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
363 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
364 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
365 main controller window.
366 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
369 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
374 * Updates of other localizations
377 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
378 * Lots of small bugfixes.
379 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
380 * Telnet fixes on Windows
381 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
383 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
384 ---------------------------------
387 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
389 Bunch of small bugfixes.
392 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
393 --------------------------------
398 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
399 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
402 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
403 --------------------------------
405 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
406 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
409 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
412 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
413 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
416 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
417 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
420 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
421 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
422 * Various fixed in playlist
425 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
428 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
431 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
432 ------------------------------------
434 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
435 * Fixes several memory leaks.
438 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
439 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
440 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
443 * Stability fix for the video output.
446 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
447 --------------------------------
450 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
451 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
452 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
453 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
454 * Fixed update system bugs
455 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
458 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
459 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
460 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
461 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
462 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
463 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
464 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
465 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
466 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
467 modern Mac OS X versions
470 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
471 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
473 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
474 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
477 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
478 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
479 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
480 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
481 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
482 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
485 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
486 --------------------------------
488 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
489 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
493 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
494 --------------------------------
496 * Multiple bug fixes.
499 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
500 ---------------------------------
504 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
505 recent to work correctly
506 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
507 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
508 edit the ".hosts" file.
509 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
510 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
511 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
512 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
513 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
514 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
515 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
516 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
517 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
518 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
519 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
520 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
521 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
522 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
523 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
524 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
525 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
526 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
527 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
528 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
529 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
530 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
531 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
532 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
533 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
534 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
535 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
536 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
537 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
538 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
539 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
540 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
541 and postproc modules.
542 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
543 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
544 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
545 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
547 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
549 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
550 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
552 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
553 * Glide video output module has been removed.
559 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
561 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
562 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
565 * Vastly improved playlist support:
566 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
568 * Shoutcast TV listings
569 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
571 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
572 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
574 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
577 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
578 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
579 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
580 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
581 * JACK audio input support
582 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
583 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
584 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
585 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
586 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
587 * Experimental EyeTV access module
588 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
589 (available as a separate download).
590 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
592 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
593 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
594 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
596 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
597 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
600 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
601 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
602 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
603 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
605 * APEv1/2 tags support
606 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
607 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
609 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
610 * TiVo Series 2 support
611 * CD+G karaoke Files support
616 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
617 * Flash Screen Video support
618 * CamStudio Screen Video support
619 * DosBox Capture support
620 * Karl Morton's Video support
621 * limited atrac3 support
623 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
624 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
625 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
627 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
628 * NellyMoser ASAO support
629 * APE (Monkey audio) support
630 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
631 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
634 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
635 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
636 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
637 * AQTitle subtitles support
638 * MKV USF subtitles support
639 * HTML-based subtitles support
640 * MPSub subtitles support
641 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
642 * MPL2 subtitles support
643 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
644 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
645 * Realtext subtitle support
646 * DKS subtitle support
647 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
648 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
651 * Flash Screen Video support
652 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
654 Video outputs and filters:
655 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
656 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
657 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
658 * New puzzle video output filter
659 * Re-written motion detection video filter
660 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
662 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
663 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
664 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
665 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
666 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
667 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
668 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
669 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
670 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
671 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
672 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
673 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
674 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
675 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
677 Audio outputs and filters:
678 * Replay gain support
679 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
680 new scaletempo audio filter)
681 * New spatializer audio filter
682 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
685 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
686 * New RTP payload formats:
687 * Speex voice audio codec
688 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
689 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
690 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
691 * DCCP transport for RTP
692 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
697 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
698 end-user suitable way.
699 * Improved user interaction
700 * Improved mouse gestures
701 * Vastly improved Update checker
702 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
704 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
705 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
707 * Improved video output features
708 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
709 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
710 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
711 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
712 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
714 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
715 if libncursesw is available.
716 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
717 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
718 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
720 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
721 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
722 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
723 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
724 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
725 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
726 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
727 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
730 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
731 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
732 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
735 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
736 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
737 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
738 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
739 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
740 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
743 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
744 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
754 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
755 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
756 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
759 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
760 ----------------------------------
763 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
766 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
767 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
768 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
769 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
770 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
771 * Updated Polish translation
774 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
775 ----------------------------------
778 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
779 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
780 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
783 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
784 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
785 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
786 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
787 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
788 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
789 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
790 to an unexpected application termination
791 * New Serbian translation
792 * Updated Romanian translation
795 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
796 ----------------------------------
799 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
800 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
801 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
802 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
803 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
804 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
805 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
806 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
809 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
810 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
811 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
812 * Fixed AAC resampling
813 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
814 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
817 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
818 ----------------------------------
821 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
822 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
823 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
824 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
825 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
828 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
829 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
830 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
831 * Close MMS access on network timeout
832 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
835 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
836 ----------------------------------
839 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
840 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
843 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
844 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
845 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
846 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
848 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
852 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
855 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
858 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
861 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
864 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
865 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
866 encoding on multi-cpu systems
867 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
868 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
870 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
871 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
872 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
873 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
876 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
879 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
880 ----------------------------------
883 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
884 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
885 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
887 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
888 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
890 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
891 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
894 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
896 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
897 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
898 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
899 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
900 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
901 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
903 * Support for current Ogg file formats
904 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
905 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
908 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
911 * The automatic updating facility was removed
912 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
913 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
914 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
917 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
918 ----------------------------------
920 Various bugfixes, notably:
921 * Windows Vista compatibility
922 * Cropping in Direct3D
923 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
924 * RSS filter string overflow
926 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
928 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
929 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
932 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
933 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
936 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
939 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
942 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
945 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
946 ----------------------------------
948 Various bugfixes, notably:
949 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
950 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
951 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
952 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
953 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
954 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
957 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
958 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
961 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
963 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
964 * Diverse usability improvements
965 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
966 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
967 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
970 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
971 ---------------------------------
974 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
977 * Fullscreen controller improvements
980 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
981 --------------------------------
984 * Shoutcast TV listings support
987 * Support for RTSP authentication
988 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
989 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
990 * ATSC support for DVB input
991 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
992 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
993 * Improved support for Flash Video files
996 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
997 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
998 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
999 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1000 * Matroska WavPack support
1001 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1002 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1003 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1006 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1007 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1008 * Improved libcaca support
1012 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1013 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1015 * Systray support in skins
1017 * Support for Apple Remote control
1018 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1019 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1020 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1021 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1023 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1026 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1027 Windows 9x/ME users:
1028 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1029 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1030 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1031 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1032 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1034 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1035 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1044 * Updates to the libvlc API
1045 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1048 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1049 --------------------------------
1052 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1053 * Support for downloading updates
1057 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1058 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1059 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1060 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1062 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1063 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1064 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1067 * Cook (Real audio) support
1069 Playlist / Services discovery:
1070 * XSPF playlist support
1072 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1075 * New JACK audio output
1078 * New video filters:
1079 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1080 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1081 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1082 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1083 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1084 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1087 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1090 * System to inform the user and request information
1091 - HTTP authentication
1095 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1096 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1097 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1100 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1101 - Improved playlist handling
1102 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1104 - Embedded Video output
1105 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1106 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1107 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1108 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1109 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1111 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1112 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1115 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1118 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1119 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1120 * Growl "Now playing" support
1123 * Ability to log to syslog
1124 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1127 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1129 * A bit more automatic testing
1132 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1133 ---------------------------------
1136 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1137 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1140 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1141 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1144 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1147 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1148 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1154 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1157 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1158 --------------------------------
1161 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1165 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1166 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1167 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1170 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1171 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1172 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1173 * GnomeVFS input module
1174 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1175 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1178 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1179 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1180 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1183 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1184 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1190 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1191 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1194 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1195 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1196 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1199 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1201 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1202 - New extended controls panel
1203 - New bookmarks window
1204 - Fixed playlist sorting
1205 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1207 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1208 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1209 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1210 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1214 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1215 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1217 - Include macro to include other files
1221 * Should now work outside IE as well
1224 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1227 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1228 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1231 The following languages were added:
1235 * Simplified Chinese
1236 The following languages were re-added:
1240 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1241 --------------------------------
1244 * Rewrite of the playlist
1246 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1247 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1248 * Preferences improvements:
1249 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1250 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1252 * Core image manipulation support
1253 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1254 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1255 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1256 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1257 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1258 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1259 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1260 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1261 * Access filter architecture
1262 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1263 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1267 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1268 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1269 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1270 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1271 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1272 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1273 * Massive Matroska improvements
1274 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1276 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1277 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1278 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1279 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1280 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1282 Decoders / Encoders:
1283 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1284 * PNG decoder/encoder
1285 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1286 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1289 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1292 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1293 * Brand new SAP module
1294 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1295 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1296 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1297 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1298 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1299 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1303 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1306 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1307 * Image file video output (png)
1308 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1309 * Improvements to wall video filter
1310 * Support for font color and opacity
1316 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1317 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1318 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1322 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1323 - Improved preferences
1324 - Improvements to the wizard
1325 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1327 - Redesigned playlist
1328 - Improved preferences
1330 - Support for multiple actions
1333 - Support for the new playlist system
1335 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1338 * Screensaver disabling fix
1339 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1340 * Support for no-decoration windows
1343 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1344 * The OpenGL video output is back
1345 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1346 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1347 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1348 is not yet available in the new module
1349 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1352 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1361 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1364 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1367 The following languages were added:
1373 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1374 --------------------------------
1377 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1378 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1381 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1382 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1383 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1386 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1389 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1392 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1395 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1396 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1397 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1401 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1403 * Support of playlist group announcement
1406 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1407 --------------------------------
1410 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1411 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1412 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1413 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1414 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1415 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1418 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1419 (Stream your desktop)
1420 * Improved DVD support:
1421 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1422 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1423 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1424 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1425 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1426 (selection of titles/chapters).
1429 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1430 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1431 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1432 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1433 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1434 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1435 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1436 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1437 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1438 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1441 * G.726 audio support
1442 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1443 * MPEG-4 text support
1444 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1445 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1446 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1450 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1451 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1452 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1453 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1454 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1455 * DVB subtitles encoder
1456 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1457 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1459 * Text track muxing for mp4
1460 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1461 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1462 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1463 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1464 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1465 * Improved ASF muxer
1467 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1468 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1469 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1472 * New audio equalizer filter
1473 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1474 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1475 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1476 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1479 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1480 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1481 with support for effects.
1482 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1483 - New filters can be streamed.
1484 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1485 - Centralized scaling and blending
1487 - "time", to display current time
1488 - "marq", to display a marquee
1491 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1492 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1493 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1494 * A few skins2 improvements
1495 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1496 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1497 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1498 * Improved CORBA control module
1501 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1502 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1503 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1506 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1507 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1508 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1511 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1512 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1513 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1514 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1515 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1518 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1521 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1522 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1525 * Server/client network synchronization module
1526 * VBrick streams fully supported
1527 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1531 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1532 --------------------------------
1535 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1536 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1537 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1538 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1541 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1542 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1543 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1544 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1545 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1546 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1547 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1550 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1551 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1552 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1553 * Improved directory access module.
1554 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1555 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1556 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1557 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1558 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1561 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1562 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1563 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1566 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1567 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1568 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1571 * Improved session announcement system.
1572 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1573 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1574 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1575 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1576 * Improved transrater.
1577 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1578 * New configuration system.
1579 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1582 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1583 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1584 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1585 * Supports scheduling.
1586 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1587 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1590 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1591 - Ability to embed video output.
1592 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1593 - Lots of improvements.
1594 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1595 - New design and set of icons.
1596 - Ability to embed video output.
1597 - Support for hotkeys.
1598 - Support for bookmarks.
1600 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1601 - Better hotkeys handling.
1604 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1605 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1606 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1607 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1610 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1611 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1612 * Improved Windows installer.
1618 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1619 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1622 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1623 ---------------------------------
1626 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1627 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1630 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1631 --------------------------------
1634 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1635 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1638 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1639 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1640 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1641 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1644 * Internal improvments
1645 * Improved import/export
1648 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1650 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1651 small and strange formats.
1653 * New MOD audio demux.
1654 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1655 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1656 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1657 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1660 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1661 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1662 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1668 * New opengl video output plugin.
1671 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1672 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1675 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1676 --------------------------------
1679 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1680 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1681 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1682 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1683 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1684 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1685 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1686 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1689 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1694 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1695 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1696 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1697 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1698 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1699 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1700 * Better Icecast support.
1701 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1702 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1705 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1706 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1707 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1708 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1709 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1710 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1711 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1714 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1715 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1716 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1717 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1718 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1719 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1720 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1721 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1722 * Preliminary RTP support.
1723 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1728 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1729 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1731 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1732 - Improvements and help in preferences
1733 - New streaming wizard
1734 - Revised Disc Open menu
1736 - Improvements of the standard pages
1737 - Support for new commands
1738 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1741 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1742 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1745 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1746 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1747 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1748 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1749 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1750 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1751 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1752 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1753 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1756 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1758 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1759 * Support for Panther.
1760 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1761 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1764 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1765 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1766 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1767 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1768 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1769 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1770 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1771 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1774 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1775 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1776 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1779 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1782 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1783 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1784 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1785 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1788 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1789 --------------------------------
1792 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1795 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1796 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1799 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1800 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1803 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1806 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1807 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1810 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1813 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1816 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1817 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1821 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1826 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1830 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1831 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1832 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1834 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1835 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1838 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1841 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1844 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1845 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1849 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1850 --------------------------------
1853 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1854 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1858 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1859 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1860 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1861 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1862 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1865 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1866 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1867 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1870 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1871 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1872 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1875 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1876 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1877 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1878 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1879 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1882 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1883 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1884 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1887 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1890 * Improved build system.
1891 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1892 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1893 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1894 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1897 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1898 --------------------------------
1901 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1904 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1905 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1906 * Video 4 Linux support
1907 * CD Digital Audio support
1908 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1911 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1912 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1913 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1914 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1917 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1918 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1919 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1920 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1921 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1922 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1923 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1926 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1927 * New HTTP remote control interface
1930 * 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.
1931 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1932 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1933 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1936 * New reset option for the preferences
1937 * You can set your language in the prefences
1938 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1939 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1940 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1941 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1944 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1945 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1946 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1949 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1950 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1951 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1952 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1953 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1954 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1955 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1956 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1957 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1958 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1961 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1962 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1963 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1964 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1965 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1966 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1967 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1970 * Interface localization
1971 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1972 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1973 * New full-featured Preferences window
1976 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1977 --------------------------------
1980 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1981 * support for skins at the interface level
1982 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1983 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1984 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1985 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1986 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1989 * fixed HTTP redirects
1990 * support for opening an entire directory
1991 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1992 * new video4linux access plug-in
1993 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1996 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1997 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1998 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2001 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2002 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2003 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2004 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2005 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2006 * new codec for raw I420 video
2007 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2010 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2011 (although it still misses some important features)
2012 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2015 * new HTTP output support
2016 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2017 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2020 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2023 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2026 * reorderable playlist
2027 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2028 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2029 * support for mono audio output devices
2030 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2031 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2032 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2033 * the messages window remembers more lines
2034 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2035 * http and ogg stream output options
2036 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2039 * new skinnable interface
2040 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2042 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2043 * support for FLAC audio format
2044 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2046 * network tab in the interface
2047 * "apply" handling in preferences
2050 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2051 ---------------------------------
2054 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2055 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2056 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2057 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2059 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2060 * DTS S/PDIF support
2063 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2064 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2065 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2066 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2069 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2070 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2073 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2076 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2079 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2081 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2082 * rc interface is now fully useable
2083 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2086 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2087 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2088 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2089 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2090 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2092 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2093 * support for mouse gestures
2094 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2097 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2098 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2101 * improved ID3 tag detection
2102 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2103 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2104 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2106 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2109 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2110 ---------------------------------
2113 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2114 English was set as the preferred language
2117 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * new mouse gesture interface
2122 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2126 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2127 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2128 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2131 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2132 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2136 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2139 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2140 without the user consent
2143 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2145 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2146 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2147 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2150 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2151 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2152 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2153 * playlist enhancements
2154 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2155 * new step forward/step backward commands
2156 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2157 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2158 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2161 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2162 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2163 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2166 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2167 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2170 * native video output is working again
2171 * only commandline interface support
2172 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2175 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2176 --------------------------------
2179 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2180 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2181 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2182 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2183 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2184 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2185 and A/52 streams are supported)
2186 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2191 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2192 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2193 * VCD entry points support
2194 * VCD image file support
2197 * support for *.asf format
2198 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2199 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2200 * support for ogg encapsulation
2201 * support for raw DV format
2202 * support for *.wav format
2203 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2206 Stream discovery & playlists:
2207 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2208 * support for .m3u file format
2209 * support for .asx file format
2210 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2213 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2214 (only available with the .avi demux)
2215 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2216 * support for raw PCM data
2217 * support for Cinepak video codec
2218 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2219 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2220 * support for Xvid codec
2221 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2222 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2223 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2225 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2227 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2230 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2233 * new WxWindows interface
2234 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2235 device and the channels configuration
2236 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2237 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2238 format that VLC can play
2239 * new swedish translation
2240 * enhancements of the playlist window
2241 * new messages window to see debug info
2242 * fixed a few crashes
2245 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2246 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2247 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2248 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working