3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
18 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
19 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
23 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
25 * Improved user interaction
27 * Full Screen controller panel
29 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
30 --------------------------------
33 * Shoutcast TV listings support
36 * Support for RTSP authentication
37 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
38 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
39 * ATSC support for DVB
42 * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
43 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
46 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
47 * Improved libcaca support
50 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
51 * Systray support in skins (Windows only)
52 * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux
53 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
55 - Support for Apple Remote control
56 - Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
57 - Main Menu keeps accessible when playing in fullscreen mode
65 * Updates to the libvlc API
68 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
69 ---------------------------------
72 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
73 * Support for downloading updates
77 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
78 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
79 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
80 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
82 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
83 * Improved subtitles encoding support
84 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
87 * Cook (Real audio) support
89 Playlist / Services discovery:
90 * XSPF playlist support
92 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
95 * New JACK audio output
99 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
100 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
101 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
102 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
103 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
104 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
107 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
110 * System to inform the user and request information
111 - HTTP authentication
115 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
116 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
117 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
120 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
121 - Improved playlist handling
122 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
124 - Embedded Video output
125 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
126 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
127 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
128 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
129 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
131 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
132 - A bunch of new RPN functions
135 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
138 * Mac-Intel compatibility
139 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
140 * Growl "Now playing" support
143 * Ability to log to syslog
144 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
147 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
149 * A bit more automatic testing
151 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
152 ---------------------------------
155 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
156 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
159 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
160 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
163 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
166 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
167 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
173 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
175 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
176 --------------------------------
179 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
183 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
184 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
185 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
188 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
189 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
190 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
191 * GnomeVFS input module
192 * Support for RTP packet reordering
193 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
196 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
197 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
198 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
201 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
202 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
208 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
209 Mixer and Dolby Surround
212 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
213 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
214 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
217 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
219 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
220 - New extended controls panel
221 - New bookmarks window
222 - Fixed playlist sorting
223 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
225 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
226 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
227 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
228 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
232 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
233 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
235 - Include macro to include other files
239 * Should now work outside IE as well
242 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
245 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
246 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
249 The following languages were added:
254 The following languages were re-added:
257 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
258 --------------------------------
261 * Rewrite of the playlist
263 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
264 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
265 * Preferences improvements:
266 - New organization, designed to improve usability
267 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
269 * Core image manipulation support
270 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
271 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
272 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
273 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
274 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
275 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
276 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
277 now separated by ':' instead of ','
278 * Access filter architecture
279 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
280 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
284 * Support for SOCKS proxy
285 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
286 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
287 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
288 * Better support for Kasenna streams
289 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
290 * Massive Matroska improvements
291 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
293 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
294 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
295 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
296 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
297 * Support for FTP over IPv6
300 * Dirac decoder and encoder
301 * PNG decoder/encoder
302 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
303 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
306 * New Record and Timeshift filters
309 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
310 * Brand new SAP module
311 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
312 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
313 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
314 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
315 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
316 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
320 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
323 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
324 * Image file video output (png)
325 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
326 * Improvements to wall video filter
327 * Support for font color and opacity
333 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
334 - Seeking support in VoD streams
335 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
339 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
340 - Improved preferences
341 - Improvements to the wizard
342 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
344 - Redesigned playlist
345 - Improved preferences
347 - Support for multiple actions
350 - Support for the new playlist system
352 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
355 * Screensaver disabling fix
356 * DirectShow tuner configuration
357 * Support for no-decoration windows
360 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
361 * The OpenGL video output is back
362 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
363 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
364 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
365 is not yet available in the new module
366 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
369 * Support for single-buffered overlay
378 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
381 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
384 The following languages were added:
390 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
391 -----------------------------------------------------
394 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
395 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
398 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
399 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
400 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
403 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
406 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
409 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
412 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
413 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
414 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
418 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
420 * Support of playlist group announcement
422 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
423 -----------------------------------------------------
426 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
427 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
428 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
429 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
430 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
431 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
434 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
435 (Stream your desktop)
436 * Improved DVD support:
437 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
438 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
439 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
440 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
441 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
442 (selection of titles/chapters).
445 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
446 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
447 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
448 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
449 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
450 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
451 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
452 * Improved Ogg demuxer
453 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
454 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
457 * G.726 audio support
458 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
459 * MPEG-4 text support
460 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
461 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
462 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
466 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
467 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
468 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
469 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
470 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
471 * DVB subtitles encoder
472 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
473 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
475 * Text track muxing for mp4
476 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
477 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
478 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
479 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
480 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
483 * H.263 RTP streaming support
484 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
485 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
488 * New audio equalizer filter
489 * Very trivial volume normalizer
490 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
491 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
492 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
495 * Roku HD1000 Video output
496 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
497 with support for effects.
498 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
499 - New filters can be streamed.
500 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
501 - Centralized scaling and blending
503 - "time", to display current time
504 - "marq", to display a marquee
507 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
508 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
509 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
510 * A few skins2 improvements
511 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
512 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
513 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
514 * Improved CORBA control module
517 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
518 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
519 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
522 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
523 * Experimental SVG rendering module
524 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
527 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
528 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
529 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
530 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
531 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
534 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
537 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
538 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
541 * Server/client network synchronization module
542 * VBrick streams fully supported
543 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
546 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
547 --------------------------------
550 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
551 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
552 * Improved HTTP daemon.
553 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
556 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
557 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
558 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
559 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
560 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
561 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
562 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
565 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
566 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
567 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
568 * Improved directory access module.
569 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
570 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
571 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
572 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
573 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
576 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
577 * mmsh streaming fixes.
578 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
581 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
582 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
583 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
586 * Improved session announcement system.
587 * Minimize threads usage by default.
588 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
589 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
590 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
591 * Improved transrater.
592 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
593 * New configuration system.
594 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
597 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
598 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
599 * Supports live streams and VoD.
600 * Supports scheduling.
601 * Telnet interface for vlm.
602 * HTTP interface for vlm.
605 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
606 - Ability to embed video output.
607 - Support for bitmap fonts.
608 - Lots of improvements.
609 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
610 - New design and set of icons.
611 - Ability to embed video output.
612 - Support for hotkeys.
613 - Support for bookmarks.
615 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
616 - Better hotkeys handling.
619 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
620 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
621 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
622 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
625 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
626 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
627 * Improved Windows installer.
633 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
634 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
636 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
637 ---------------------------------
640 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
641 * Playing MOD files is working now.
644 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
645 ---------------------------------
648 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
649 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
652 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
653 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
654 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
655 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
658 * Internal improvments
659 * Improved import/export
662 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
664 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
665 small and strange formats.
667 * New MOD audio demux.
668 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
669 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
670 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
671 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
674 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
675 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
676 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
682 * New opengl video output plugin.
685 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
686 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
688 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
689 ---------------------------------
692 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
693 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
694 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
695 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
696 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
697 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
698 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
699 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
702 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
707 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
708 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
709 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
710 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
711 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
712 * Reworked DVB tuning.
713 * Better Icecast support.
714 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
715 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
718 * Support for Theora video encoding.
719 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
720 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
721 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
722 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
723 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
724 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
727 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
728 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
729 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
730 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
731 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
732 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
733 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
734 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
735 * Preliminary RTP support.
736 * Fixes to SAP announces.
741 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
742 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
744 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
745 - Improvements and help in preferences
746 - New streaming wizard
747 - Revised Disc Open menu
749 - Improvements of the standard pages
750 - Support for new commands
751 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
754 * Many fixes to the SAP module
755 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
758 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
759 * Text subtitles autodetection.
760 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
761 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
762 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
763 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
764 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
765 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
766 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
769 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
771 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
772 * Support for Panther.
773 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
774 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
777 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
778 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
779 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
780 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
781 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
782 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
783 * Multimonitor support (untested).
784 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
787 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
788 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
789 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
792 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
795 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
796 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
797 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
798 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
800 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
801 ---------------------------------
804 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
807 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
808 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
811 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
812 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
815 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
818 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
819 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
822 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
825 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
828 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
829 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
832 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
833 ---------------------------------
836 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
837 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
841 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
842 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
843 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
845 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
846 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
849 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
852 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
855 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
856 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
859 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
860 ---------------------------------
863 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
864 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
868 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
869 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
870 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
871 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
872 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
875 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
876 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
877 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
880 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
881 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
882 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
885 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
886 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
887 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
888 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
889 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
892 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
893 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
894 * A new CORBA control plugin.
897 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
900 * Improved build system.
901 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
902 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
903 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
904 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
907 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
908 ---------------------------------
911 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
914 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
915 * Fixed large file support on Windows
916 * Video 4 Linux support
917 * CD Digital Audio support
918 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
921 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
922 * Support for OpenDML avi files
923 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
924 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
927 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
928 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
929 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
930 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
931 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
932 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
933 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
936 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
937 * New HTTP remote control interface
940 * 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.
941 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
942 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
943 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
946 * New reset option for the preferences
947 * You can set your language in the prefences
948 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
949 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
950 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
951 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
954 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
955 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
956 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
959 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
960 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
961 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
962 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
963 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
964 * New icons by Davor Orel.
965 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
966 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
967 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
968 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
971 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
972 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
973 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
974 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
975 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
976 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
977 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
980 * Interface localization
981 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
982 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
983 * New full-featured Preferences window
985 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
986 ---------------------------------
989 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
990 * support for skins at the interface level
991 * new OSD module using Freetype2
992 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
993 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
994 input level before dropping out of date frames.
995 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
998 * fixed HTTP redirects
999 * support for opening an entire directory
1000 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1001 * new video4linux access plug-in
1002 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1005 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1006 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1007 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1010 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1011 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1012 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1013 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1014 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1015 * new codec for raw I420 video
1016 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1019 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1020 (although it still misses some important features)
1021 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1024 * new HTTP output support
1025 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1026 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1029 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1032 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1035 * reorderable playlist
1036 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1037 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1038 * support for mono audio output devices
1039 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1040 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1041 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1042 * the messages window remembers more lines
1043 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1044 * http and ogg stream output options
1045 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1048 * new skinnable interface
1049 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1051 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1052 * support for FLAC audio format
1053 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1055 * network tab in the interface
1056 * "apply" handling in preferences
1059 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1060 ---------------------------------
1063 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1064 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1065 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1066 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1068 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1069 * DTS S/PDIF support
1072 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1073 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1074 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1075 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1078 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1079 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1082 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1085 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1088 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1090 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1091 * rc interface is now fully useable
1092 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1095 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1096 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1097 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1098 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1099 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1101 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1102 * support for mouse gestures
1103 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1106 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1107 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1110 * improved ID3 tag detection
1111 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1112 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1113 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1115 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1118 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1119 ---------------------------------
1122 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1123 English was set as the preferred language
1126 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1127 --------------------------------
1130 * new mouse gesture interface
1131 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1135 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1136 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1137 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1140 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1141 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1145 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1148 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1149 without the user consent
1152 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1154 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1155 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1156 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1159 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1160 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1161 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1162 * playlist enhancements
1163 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1164 * new step forward/step backward commands
1165 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1166 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1167 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1170 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1171 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1172 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1175 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1176 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1179 * native video output is working again
1180 * only commandline interface support
1181 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1184 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1185 --------------------------------
1188 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1189 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1190 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1191 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1192 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1193 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1194 and A/52 streams are supported)
1195 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1200 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1201 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1202 * VCD entry points support
1203 * VCD image file support
1206 * support for *.asf format
1207 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1208 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1209 * support for ogg encapsulation
1210 * support for raw DV format
1211 * support for *.wav format
1212 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1215 Stream discovery & playlists:
1216 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1217 * support for .m3u file format
1218 * support for .asx file format
1219 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1222 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1223 (only available with the .avi demux)
1224 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1225 * support for raw PCM data
1226 * support for Cinepak video codec
1227 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1228 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1229 * support for Xvid codec
1230 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1231 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1232 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1234 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1236 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1239 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1242 * new WxWindows interface
1243 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1244 device and the channels configuration
1245 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1246 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1247 format that VLC can play
1248 * new swedish translation
1249 * enhancements of the playlist window
1250 * new messages window to see debug info
1251 * fixed a few crashes
1254 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1255 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1256 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1257 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working