1 Changes between 0.9.5 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
16 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items
22 * export the playlist in HTML
24 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
25 --------------------------------
27 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
28 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
31 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
34 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
35 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
38 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
39 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
42 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
43 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
44 * Various fixed in playlist
47 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
50 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
52 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
53 ------------------------------------
55 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
56 * Fixes several memory leaks.
59 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
60 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
61 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
64 * Stability fix for the video output.
67 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
68 --------------------------------
71 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
72 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
73 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
74 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
75 * Fixed update system bugs
76 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
79 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
80 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
81 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
82 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
83 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
84 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
85 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
86 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
87 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
88 modern Mac OS X versions
91 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
92 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
94 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
95 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
98 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
99 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
100 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
101 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
102 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
103 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
106 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
107 --------------------------------
109 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
110 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
114 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
115 --------------------------------
117 * Multiple bug fixes.
120 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
121 ---------------------------------
125 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
126 recent to work correctly
127 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
128 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
129 edit the ".hosts" file.
130 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
131 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
132 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
133 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
134 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
135 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
136 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
137 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
138 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
139 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
140 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
141 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
142 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
143 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
144 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
145 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
146 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
147 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
148 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
149 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
150 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
151 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
152 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
153 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
154 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
155 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
156 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
157 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
158 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
159 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
160 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
161 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
162 and postproc modules.
163 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
164 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
165 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
166 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
168 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
170 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
171 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
173 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
174 * Glide video output module has been removed.
180 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
182 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
183 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
186 * Vastly improved playlist support:
187 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
189 * Shoutcast TV listings
190 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
192 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
193 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
195 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
198 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
199 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
200 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
201 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
202 * JACK audio input support
203 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
204 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
205 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
206 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
207 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
208 * Experimental EyeTV access module
209 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
210 (available as a separate download).
211 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
213 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
214 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
215 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
217 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
218 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
221 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
222 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
223 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
224 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
226 * APEv1/2 tags support
227 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
228 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
230 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
231 * TiVo Series 2 support
232 * CD+G karaoke Files support
237 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
238 * Flash Screen Video support
239 * CamStudio Screen Video support
240 * DosBox Capture support
241 * Karl Morton's Video support
242 * limited atrac3 support
244 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
245 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
246 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
248 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
249 * NellyMoser ASAO support
250 * APE (Monkey audio) support
251 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
252 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
255 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
256 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
257 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
258 * AQTitle subtitles support
259 * MKV USF subtitles support
260 * HTML-based subtitles support
261 * MPSub subtitles support
262 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
263 * MPL2 subtitles support
264 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
265 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
266 * Realtext subtitle support
267 * DKS subtitle support
268 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
269 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
272 * Flash Screen Video support
273 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
275 Video outputs and filters:
276 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
277 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
278 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
279 * New puzzle video output filter
280 * Re-written motion detection video filter
281 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
283 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
284 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
285 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
286 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
287 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
288 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
289 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
290 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
291 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
292 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
293 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
294 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
295 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
296 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
298 Audio outputs and filters:
299 * Replay gain support
300 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
301 new scaletempo audio filter)
302 * New spatializer audio filter
303 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
306 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
307 * New RTP payload formats:
308 * Speex voice audio codec
309 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
310 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
311 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
312 * DCCP transport for RTP
313 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
318 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
319 end-user suitable way.
320 * Improved user interaction
321 * Improved mouse gestures
322 * Vastly improved Update checker
323 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
325 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
326 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
328 * Improved video output features
329 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
330 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
331 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
332 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
333 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
335 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
336 if libncursesw is available.
337 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
338 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
339 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
341 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
342 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
343 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
344 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
345 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
346 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
347 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
348 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
351 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
352 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
353 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
356 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
357 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
358 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
359 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
360 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
361 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
364 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
365 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
375 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
376 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
377 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
380 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
381 ----------------------------------
384 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
387 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
388 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
389 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
390 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
391 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
392 * Updated Polish translation
395 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
396 ----------------------------------
399 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
400 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
401 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
404 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
405 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
406 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
407 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
408 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
409 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
410 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
411 to an unexpected application termination
412 * New Serbian translation
413 * Updated Romanian translation
416 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
417 ----------------------------------
420 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
421 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
422 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
423 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
424 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
425 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
426 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
427 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
430 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
431 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
432 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
433 * Fixed AAC resampling
434 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
435 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
438 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
439 ----------------------------------
442 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
443 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
444 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
445 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
446 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
449 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
450 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
451 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
452 * Close MMS access on network timeout
453 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
456 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
457 ----------------------------------
460 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
461 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
464 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
465 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
466 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
467 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
469 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
473 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
476 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
479 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
482 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
485 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
486 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
487 encoding on multi-cpu systems
488 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
489 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
491 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
492 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
493 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
494 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
497 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
500 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
501 ----------------------------------
504 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
505 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
506 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
508 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
509 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
511 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
512 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
515 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
517 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
518 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
519 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
520 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
521 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
522 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
524 * Support for current Ogg file formats
525 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
526 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
529 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
532 * The automatic updating facility was removed
533 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
534 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
535 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
538 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
539 ----------------------------------
541 Various bugfixes, notably:
542 * Windows Vista compatibility
543 * Cropping in Direct3D
544 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
545 * RSS filter string overflow
547 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
549 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
550 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
553 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
554 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
557 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
560 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
563 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
566 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
567 ----------------------------------
569 Various bugfixes, notably:
570 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
571 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
572 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
573 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
574 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
575 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
578 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
579 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
582 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
584 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
585 * Diverse usability improvements
586 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
587 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
588 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
591 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
592 ---------------------------------
595 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
598 * Fullscreen controller improvements
601 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
602 --------------------------------
605 * Shoutcast TV listings support
608 * Support for RTSP authentication
609 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
610 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
611 * ATSC support for DVB input
612 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
613 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
614 * Improved support for Flash Video files
617 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
618 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
619 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
620 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
621 * Matroska WavPack support
622 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
623 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
624 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
627 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
628 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
629 * Improved libcaca support
633 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
634 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
636 * Systray support in skins
638 * Support for Apple Remote control
639 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
640 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
641 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
642 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
644 * Notifications using notification-daemon
647 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
649 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
650 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
651 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
652 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
653 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
655 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
656 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
665 * Updates to the libvlc API
666 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
669 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
670 --------------------------------
673 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
674 * Support for downloading updates
678 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
679 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
680 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
681 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
683 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
684 * Improved subtitles encoding support
685 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
688 * Cook (Real audio) support
690 Playlist / Services discovery:
691 * XSPF playlist support
693 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
696 * New JACK audio output
700 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
701 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
702 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
703 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
704 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
705 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
708 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
711 * System to inform the user and request information
712 - HTTP authentication
716 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
717 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
718 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
721 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
722 - Improved playlist handling
723 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
725 - Embedded Video output
726 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
727 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
728 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
729 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
730 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
732 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
733 - A bunch of new RPN functions
736 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
739 * Mac-Intel compatibility
740 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
741 * Growl "Now playing" support
744 * Ability to log to syslog
745 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
748 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
750 * A bit more automatic testing
753 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
754 ---------------------------------
757 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
758 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
761 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
762 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
765 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
768 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
769 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
775 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
778 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
779 --------------------------------
782 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
786 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
787 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
788 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
791 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
792 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
793 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
794 * GnomeVFS input module
795 * Support for RTP packet reordering
796 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
799 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
800 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
801 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
804 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
805 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
811 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
812 Mixer and Dolby Surround
815 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
816 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
817 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
820 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
822 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
823 - New extended controls panel
824 - New bookmarks window
825 - Fixed playlist sorting
826 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
828 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
829 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
830 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
831 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
835 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
836 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
838 - Include macro to include other files
842 * Should now work outside IE as well
845 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
848 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
849 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
852 The following languages were added:
857 The following languages were re-added:
861 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
862 --------------------------------
865 * Rewrite of the playlist
867 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
868 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
869 * Preferences improvements:
870 - New organization, designed to improve usability
871 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
873 * Core image manipulation support
874 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
875 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
876 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
877 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
878 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
879 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
880 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
881 now separated by ':' instead of ','
882 * Access filter architecture
883 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
884 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
888 * Support for SOCKS proxy
889 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
890 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
891 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
892 * Better support for Kasenna streams
893 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
894 * Massive Matroska improvements
895 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
897 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
898 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
899 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
900 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
901 * Support for FTP over IPv6
904 * Dirac decoder and encoder
905 * PNG decoder/encoder
906 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
907 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
910 * New Record and Timeshift filters
913 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
914 * Brand new SAP module
915 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
916 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
917 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
918 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
919 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
920 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
924 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
927 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
928 * Image file video output (png)
929 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
930 * Improvements to wall video filter
931 * Support for font color and opacity
937 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
938 - Seeking support in VoD streams
939 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
943 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
944 - Improved preferences
945 - Improvements to the wizard
946 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
948 - Redesigned playlist
949 - Improved preferences
951 - Support for multiple actions
954 - Support for the new playlist system
956 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
959 * Screensaver disabling fix
960 * DirectShow tuner configuration
961 * Support for no-decoration windows
964 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
965 * The OpenGL video output is back
966 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
967 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
968 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
969 is not yet available in the new module
970 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
973 * Support for single-buffered overlay
982 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
985 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
988 The following languages were added:
994 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
995 --------------------------------
998 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
999 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1002 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1003 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1004 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1007 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1010 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1013 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1016 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1017 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1018 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1022 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1024 * Support of playlist group announcement
1027 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1028 --------------------------------
1031 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1032 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1033 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1034 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1035 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1036 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1039 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1040 (Stream your desktop)
1041 * Improved DVD support:
1042 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1043 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1044 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1045 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1046 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1047 (selection of titles/chapters).
1050 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1051 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1052 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1053 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1054 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1055 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1056 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1057 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1058 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1059 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1062 * G.726 audio support
1063 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1064 * MPEG-4 text support
1065 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1066 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1067 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1071 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1072 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1073 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1074 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1075 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1076 * DVB subtitles encoder
1077 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1078 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1080 * Text track muxing for mp4
1081 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1082 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1083 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1084 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1085 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1086 * Improved ASF muxer
1088 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1089 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1090 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1093 * New audio equalizer filter
1094 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1095 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1096 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1097 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1100 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1101 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1102 with support for effects.
1103 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1104 - New filters can be streamed.
1105 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1106 - Centralized scaling and blending
1108 - "time", to display current time
1109 - "marq", to display a marquee
1112 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1113 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1114 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1115 * A few skins2 improvements
1116 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1117 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1118 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1119 * Improved CORBA control module
1122 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1123 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1124 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1127 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1128 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1129 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1132 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1133 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1134 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1135 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1136 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1139 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1142 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1143 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1146 * Server/client network synchronization module
1147 * VBrick streams fully supported
1148 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1152 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1153 --------------------------------
1156 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1157 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1158 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1159 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1162 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1163 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1164 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1165 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1166 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1167 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1168 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1171 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1172 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1173 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1174 * Improved directory access module.
1175 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1176 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1177 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1178 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1179 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1182 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1183 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1184 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1187 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1188 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1189 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1192 * Improved session announcement system.
1193 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1194 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1195 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1196 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1197 * Improved transrater.
1198 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1199 * New configuration system.
1200 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1203 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1204 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1205 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1206 * Supports scheduling.
1207 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1208 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1211 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1212 - Ability to embed video output.
1213 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1214 - Lots of improvements.
1215 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1216 - New design and set of icons.
1217 - Ability to embed video output.
1218 - Support for hotkeys.
1219 - Support for bookmarks.
1221 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1222 - Better hotkeys handling.
1225 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1226 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1227 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1228 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1231 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1232 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1233 * Improved Windows installer.
1239 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1240 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1243 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1244 ---------------------------------
1247 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1248 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1251 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1252 --------------------------------
1255 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1256 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1259 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1260 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1261 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1262 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1265 * Internal improvments
1266 * Improved import/export
1269 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1271 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1272 small and strange formats.
1274 * New MOD audio demux.
1275 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1276 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1277 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1278 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1281 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1282 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1283 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1289 * New opengl video output plugin.
1292 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1293 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1296 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1297 --------------------------------
1300 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1301 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1302 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1303 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1304 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1305 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1306 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1307 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1310 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1315 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1316 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1317 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1318 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1319 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1320 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1321 * Better Icecast support.
1322 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1323 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1326 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1327 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1328 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1329 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1330 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1331 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1332 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1335 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1336 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1337 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1338 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1339 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1340 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1341 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1342 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1343 * Preliminary RTP support.
1344 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1349 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1350 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1352 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1353 - Improvements and help in preferences
1354 - New streaming wizard
1355 - Revised Disc Open menu
1357 - Improvements of the standard pages
1358 - Support for new commands
1359 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1362 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1363 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1366 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1367 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1368 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1369 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1370 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1371 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1372 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1373 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1374 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1377 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1379 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1380 * Support for Panther.
1381 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1382 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1385 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1386 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1387 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1388 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1389 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1390 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1391 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1392 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1395 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1396 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1397 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1400 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1403 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1404 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1405 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1406 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1409 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1410 --------------------------------
1413 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1416 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1417 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1420 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1421 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1424 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1427 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1428 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1431 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1434 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1437 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1438 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1442 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1443 --------------------------------
1446 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1447 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1451 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1452 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1453 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1455 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1456 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1459 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1462 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1465 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1466 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1470 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1471 --------------------------------
1474 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1475 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1479 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1480 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1481 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1482 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1483 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1486 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1487 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1488 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1491 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1492 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1493 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1496 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1497 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1498 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1499 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1500 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1503 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1504 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1505 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1508 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1511 * Improved build system.
1512 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1513 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1514 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1515 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1518 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1519 --------------------------------
1522 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1525 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1526 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1527 * Video 4 Linux support
1528 * CD Digital Audio support
1529 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1532 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1533 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1534 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1535 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1538 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1539 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1540 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1541 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1542 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1543 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1544 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1547 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1548 * New HTTP remote control interface
1551 * 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.
1552 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1553 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1554 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1557 * New reset option for the preferences
1558 * You can set your language in the prefences
1559 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1560 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1561 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1562 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1565 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1566 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1567 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1570 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1571 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1572 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1573 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1574 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1575 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1576 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1577 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1578 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1579 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1582 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1583 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1584 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1585 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1586 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1587 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1588 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1591 * Interface localization
1592 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1593 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1594 * New full-featured Preferences window
1597 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1598 --------------------------------
1601 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1602 * support for skins at the interface level
1603 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1604 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1605 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1606 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1607 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1610 * fixed HTTP redirects
1611 * support for opening an entire directory
1612 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1613 * new video4linux access plug-in
1614 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1617 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1618 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1619 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1622 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1623 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1624 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1625 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1626 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1627 * new codec for raw I420 video
1628 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1631 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1632 (although it still misses some important features)
1633 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1636 * new HTTP output support
1637 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1638 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1641 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1644 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1647 * reorderable playlist
1648 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1649 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1650 * support for mono audio output devices
1651 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1652 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1653 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1654 * the messages window remembers more lines
1655 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1656 * http and ogg stream output options
1657 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1660 * new skinnable interface
1661 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1663 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1664 * support for FLAC audio format
1665 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1667 * network tab in the interface
1668 * "apply" handling in preferences
1671 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1672 ---------------------------------
1675 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1676 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1677 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1678 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1680 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1681 * DTS S/PDIF support
1684 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1685 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1686 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1687 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1690 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1691 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1694 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1697 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1700 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1702 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1703 * rc interface is now fully useable
1704 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1707 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1708 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1709 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1710 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1711 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1713 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1714 * support for mouse gestures
1715 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1718 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1719 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1722 * improved ID3 tag detection
1723 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1724 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1725 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1727 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1730 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1731 ---------------------------------
1734 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1735 English was set as the preferred language
1738 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1739 --------------------------------
1742 * new mouse gesture interface
1743 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1747 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1748 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1749 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1752 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1753 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1757 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1760 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1761 without the user consent
1764 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1766 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1767 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1768 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1771 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1772 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1773 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1774 * playlist enhancements
1775 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1776 * new step forward/step backward commands
1777 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1778 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1779 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1782 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1783 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1784 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1787 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1788 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1791 * native video output is working again
1792 * only commandline interface support
1793 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1796 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1801 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1802 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1803 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1804 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1805 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1806 and A/52 streams are supported)
1807 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1812 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1813 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1814 * VCD entry points support
1815 * VCD image file support
1818 * support for *.asf format
1819 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1820 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1821 * support for ogg encapsulation
1822 * support for raw DV format
1823 * support for *.wav format
1824 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1827 Stream discovery & playlists:
1828 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1829 * support for .m3u file format
1830 * support for .asx file format
1831 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1834 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1835 (only available with the .avi demux)
1836 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1837 * support for raw PCM data
1838 * support for Cinepak video codec
1839 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1840 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1841 * support for Xvid codec
1842 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1843 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1844 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1846 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1848 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1851 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1854 * new WxWindows interface
1855 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1856 device and the channels configuration
1857 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1858 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1859 format that VLC can play
1860 * new swedish translation
1861 * enhancements of the playlist window
1862 * new messages window to see debug info
1863 * fixed a few crashes
1866 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1867 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1868 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1869 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working