3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
50 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
51 * JACK audio input support
52 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
53 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
54 * Fixed aiff stereo file
55 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
56 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
58 * APEv1/2 tags support
59 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
60 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
64 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
65 * MKV USF subtitles support
66 * HTML based subtitles support
67 * Flash Screen Video support
68 * CamStudio Screen Video support
69 * DosBox Capture support
70 * Karl Morton's Video support
71 * limited atrac3 support
72 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
73 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
76 * Flash Screen Video support
78 Video output and filters:
79 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
80 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
81 * New puzzle video output filter
82 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
83 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
85 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
86 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
87 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
89 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
90 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
91 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
92 was previously part of the mosaic module.
93 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
94 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
95 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
96 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
98 Audio output and filters
99 * Replay gain support.
100 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
101 * New spatializer audio filter.
104 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
105 * New RTP payload formats:
106 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles)
107 (FIXME: * Speex voice audio codec)
108 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) transport for RTP
109 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
113 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
115 * Improved user interaction
116 * Improved mouse gestures
118 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
119 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
120 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
121 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
122 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
123 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
124 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
125 when using an UTF-8 locale.
126 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
129 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
130 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
131 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
134 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
142 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
143 ----------------------------------
145 Various bugfixes, notably:
146 * Windows Vista compatibility
147 * Cropping in Direct3D
148 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
149 * RSS filter string overflow
151 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
153 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
154 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
157 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
160 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
163 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
166 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
169 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
170 ----------------------------------
172 Various bugfixes, notably:
173 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
174 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
175 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
176 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
177 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
178 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
181 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
182 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
185 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
187 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
188 * Diverse usability improvements
189 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
190 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
191 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
194 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
195 ---------------------------------
198 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
201 * Fullscreen controller improvements
204 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
205 --------------------------------
208 * Shoutcast TV listings support
211 * Support for RTSP authentication
212 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
213 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
214 * ATSC support for DVB input
215 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
216 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
217 * Improved support for Flash Video files
220 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
221 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
222 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
223 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
224 * Matroska WavPack support
225 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
226 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
227 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
230 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
231 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
232 * Improved libcaca support
236 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
237 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
239 * Systray support in skins
241 * Support for Apple Remote control
242 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
243 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
244 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
245 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
247 * Notifications using notification-daemon
250 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
252 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
253 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
254 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
255 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
256 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
258 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
259 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
268 * Updates to the libvlc API
269 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
272 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
273 --------------------------------
276 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
277 * Support for downloading updates
281 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
282 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
283 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
284 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
286 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
287 * Improved subtitles encoding support
288 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
291 * Cook (Real audio) support
293 Playlist / Services discovery:
294 * XSPF playlist support
296 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
299 * New JACK audio output
303 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
304 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
305 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
306 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
307 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
308 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
311 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
314 * System to inform the user and request information
315 - HTTP authentication
319 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
320 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
321 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
324 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
325 - Improved playlist handling
326 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
328 - Embedded Video output
329 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
330 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
331 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
332 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
333 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
335 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
336 - A bunch of new RPN functions
339 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
342 * Mac-Intel compatibility
343 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
344 * Growl "Now playing" support
347 * Ability to log to syslog
348 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
351 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
353 * A bit more automatic testing
356 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
357 ---------------------------------
360 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
361 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
364 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
365 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
368 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
371 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
372 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
378 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
381 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
382 --------------------------------
385 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
389 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
390 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
391 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
394 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
395 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
396 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
397 * GnomeVFS input module
398 * Support for RTP packet reordering
399 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
402 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
403 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
404 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
407 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
408 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
414 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
415 Mixer and Dolby Surround
418 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
419 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
420 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
423 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
425 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
426 - New extended controls panel
427 - New bookmarks window
428 - Fixed playlist sorting
429 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
431 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
432 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
433 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
434 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
438 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
439 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
441 - Include macro to include other files
445 * Should now work outside IE as well
448 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
451 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
452 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
455 The following languages were added:
460 The following languages were re-added:
464 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
465 --------------------------------
468 * Rewrite of the playlist
470 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
471 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
472 * Preferences improvements:
473 - New organization, designed to improve usability
474 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
476 * Core image manipulation support
477 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
478 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
479 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
480 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
481 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
482 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
483 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
484 now separated by ':' instead of ','
485 * Access filter architecture
486 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
487 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
491 * Support for SOCKS proxy
492 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
493 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
494 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
495 * Better support for Kasenna streams
496 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
497 * Massive Matroska improvements
498 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
500 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
501 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
502 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
503 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
504 * Support for FTP over IPv6
507 * Dirac decoder and encoder
508 * PNG decoder/encoder
509 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
510 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
513 * New Record and Timeshift filters
516 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
517 * Brand new SAP module
518 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
519 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
520 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
521 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
522 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
523 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
527 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
530 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
531 * Image file video output (png)
532 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
533 * Improvements to wall video filter
534 * Support for font color and opacity
540 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
541 - Seeking support in VoD streams
542 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
546 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
547 - Improved preferences
548 - Improvements to the wizard
549 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
551 - Redesigned playlist
552 - Improved preferences
554 - Support for multiple actions
557 - Support for the new playlist system
559 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
562 * Screensaver disabling fix
563 * DirectShow tuner configuration
564 * Support for no-decoration windows
567 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
568 * The OpenGL video output is back
569 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
570 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
571 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
572 is not yet available in the new module
573 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
576 * Support for single-buffered overlay
585 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
588 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
591 The following languages were added:
597 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
598 --------------------------------
601 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
602 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
605 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
606 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
607 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
610 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
613 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
616 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
619 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
620 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
621 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
625 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
627 * Support of playlist group announcement
630 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
631 --------------------------------
634 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
635 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
636 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
637 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
638 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
639 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
642 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
643 (Stream your desktop)
644 * Improved DVD support:
645 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
646 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
647 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
648 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
649 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
650 (selection of titles/chapters).
653 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
654 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
655 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
656 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
657 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
658 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
659 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
660 * Improved Ogg demuxer
661 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
662 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
665 * G.726 audio support
666 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
667 * MPEG-4 text support
668 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
669 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
670 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
674 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
675 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
676 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
677 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
678 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
679 * DVB subtitles encoder
680 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
681 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
683 * Text track muxing for mp4
684 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
685 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
686 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
687 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
688 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
691 * H.263 RTP streaming support
692 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
693 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
696 * New audio equalizer filter
697 * Very trivial volume normalizer
698 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
699 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
700 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
703 * Roku HD1000 Video output
704 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
705 with support for effects.
706 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
707 - New filters can be streamed.
708 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
709 - Centralized scaling and blending
711 - "time", to display current time
712 - "marq", to display a marquee
715 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
716 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
717 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
718 * A few skins2 improvements
719 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
720 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
721 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
722 * Improved CORBA control module
725 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
726 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
727 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
730 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
731 * Experimental SVG rendering module
732 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
735 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
736 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
737 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
738 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
739 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
742 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
745 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
746 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
749 * Server/client network synchronization module
750 * VBrick streams fully supported
751 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
755 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
756 --------------------------------
759 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
760 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
761 * Improved HTTP daemon.
762 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
765 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
766 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
767 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
768 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
769 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
770 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
771 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
774 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
775 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
776 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
777 * Improved directory access module.
778 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
779 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
780 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
781 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
782 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
785 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
786 * mmsh streaming fixes.
787 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
790 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
791 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
792 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
795 * Improved session announcement system.
796 * Minimize threads usage by default.
797 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
798 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
799 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
800 * Improved transrater.
801 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
802 * New configuration system.
803 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
806 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
807 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
808 * Supports live streams and VoD.
809 * Supports scheduling.
810 * Telnet interface for vlm.
811 * HTTP interface for vlm.
814 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
815 - Ability to embed video output.
816 - Support for bitmap fonts.
817 - Lots of improvements.
818 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
819 - New design and set of icons.
820 - Ability to embed video output.
821 - Support for hotkeys.
822 - Support for bookmarks.
824 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
825 - Better hotkeys handling.
828 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
829 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
830 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
831 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
834 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
835 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
836 * Improved Windows installer.
842 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
843 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
846 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
847 ---------------------------------
850 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
851 * Playing MOD files is working now.
854 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
855 --------------------------------
858 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
859 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
862 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
863 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
864 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
865 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
868 * Internal improvments
869 * Improved import/export
872 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
874 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
875 small and strange formats.
877 * New MOD audio demux.
878 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
879 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
880 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
881 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
884 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
885 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
886 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
892 * New opengl video output plugin.
895 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
896 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
899 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
900 --------------------------------
903 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
904 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
905 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
906 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
907 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
908 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
909 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
910 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
913 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
918 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
919 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
920 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
921 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
922 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
923 * Reworked DVB tuning.
924 * Better Icecast support.
925 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
926 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
929 * Support for Theora video encoding.
930 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
931 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
932 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
933 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
934 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
935 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
938 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
939 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
940 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
941 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
942 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
943 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
944 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
945 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
946 * Preliminary RTP support.
947 * Fixes to SAP announces.
952 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
953 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
955 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
956 - Improvements and help in preferences
957 - New streaming wizard
958 - Revised Disc Open menu
960 - Improvements of the standard pages
961 - Support for new commands
962 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
965 * Many fixes to the SAP module
966 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
969 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
970 * Text subtitles autodetection.
971 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
972 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
973 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
974 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
975 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
976 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
977 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
980 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
982 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
983 * Support for Panther.
984 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
985 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
988 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
989 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
990 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
991 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
992 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
993 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
994 * Multimonitor support (untested).
995 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
998 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
999 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1000 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1003 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1006 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1007 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1008 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1009 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1012 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1013 --------------------------------
1016 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1019 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1020 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1023 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1024 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1027 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1030 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1031 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1034 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1037 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1040 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1041 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1045 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1046 --------------------------------
1049 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1050 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1054 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1055 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1056 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1058 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1059 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1062 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1065 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1068 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1069 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1073 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1074 --------------------------------
1077 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1078 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1082 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1083 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1084 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1085 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1086 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1089 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1090 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1091 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1094 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1095 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1096 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1099 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1100 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1101 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1102 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1103 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1106 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1107 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1108 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1111 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1114 * Improved build system.
1115 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1116 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1117 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1118 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1121 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1122 --------------------------------
1125 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1128 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1129 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1130 * Video 4 Linux support
1131 * CD Digital Audio support
1132 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1135 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1136 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1137 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1138 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1141 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1142 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1143 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1144 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1145 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1146 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1147 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1150 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1151 * New HTTP remote control interface
1154 * 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.
1155 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1156 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1157 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1160 * New reset option for the preferences
1161 * You can set your language in the prefences
1162 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1163 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1164 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1165 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1168 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1169 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1170 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1173 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1174 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1175 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1176 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1177 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1178 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1179 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1180 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1181 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1182 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1185 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1186 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1187 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1188 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1189 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1190 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1191 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1194 * Interface localization
1195 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1196 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1197 * New full-featured Preferences window
1200 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1201 --------------------------------
1204 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1205 * support for skins at the interface level
1206 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1207 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1208 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1209 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1210 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1213 * fixed HTTP redirects
1214 * support for opening an entire directory
1215 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1216 * new video4linux access plug-in
1217 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1220 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1221 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1222 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1225 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1226 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1227 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1228 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1229 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1230 * new codec for raw I420 video
1231 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1234 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1235 (although it still misses some important features)
1236 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1239 * new HTTP output support
1240 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1241 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1244 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1247 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1250 * reorderable playlist
1251 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1252 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1253 * support for mono audio output devices
1254 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1255 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1256 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1257 * the messages window remembers more lines
1258 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1259 * http and ogg stream output options
1260 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1263 * new skinnable interface
1264 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1266 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1267 * support for FLAC audio format
1268 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1270 * network tab in the interface
1271 * "apply" handling in preferences
1274 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1275 ---------------------------------
1278 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1279 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1280 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1281 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1283 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1284 * DTS S/PDIF support
1287 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1288 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1289 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1290 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1293 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1294 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1297 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1300 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1303 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1305 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1306 * rc interface is now fully useable
1307 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1310 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1311 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1312 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1313 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1314 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1316 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1317 * support for mouse gestures
1318 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1321 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1322 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1325 * improved ID3 tag detection
1326 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1327 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1328 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1330 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1333 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1334 ---------------------------------
1337 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1338 English was set as the preferred language
1341 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1342 --------------------------------
1345 * new mouse gesture interface
1346 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1350 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1351 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1352 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1355 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1356 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1360 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1363 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1364 without the user consent
1367 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1369 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1370 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1371 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1374 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1375 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1376 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1377 * playlist enhancements
1378 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1379 * new step forward/step backward commands
1380 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1381 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1382 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1385 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1386 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1387 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1390 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1391 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1394 * native video output is working again
1395 * only commandline interface support
1396 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1399 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1400 --------------------------------
1403 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1404 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1405 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1406 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1407 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1408 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1409 and A/52 streams are supported)
1410 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1415 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1416 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1417 * VCD entry points support
1418 * VCD image file support
1421 * support for *.asf format
1422 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1423 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1424 * support for ogg encapsulation
1425 * support for raw DV format
1426 * support for *.wav format
1427 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1430 Stream discovery & playlists:
1431 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1432 * support for .m3u file format
1433 * support for .asx file format
1434 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1437 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1438 (only available with the .avi demux)
1439 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1440 * support for raw PCM data
1441 * support for Cinepak video codec
1442 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1443 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1444 * support for Xvid codec
1445 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1446 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1447 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1449 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1451 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1454 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1457 * new WxWindows interface
1458 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1459 device and the channels configuration
1460 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1461 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1462 format that VLC can play
1463 * new swedish translation
1464 * enhancements of the playlist window
1465 * new messages window to see debug info
1466 * fixed a few crashes
1469 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1470 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1471 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1472 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working