1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
66 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
67 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
68 * Ogg seeking improvements
69 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
70 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
71 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
72 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
75 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
76 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
77 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
78 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
79 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
80 and important cleanups and optimisations
81 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
82 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
83 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
84 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
85 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
86 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
87 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
88 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
89 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
90 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
93 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
94 * New video output for iOS platform
95 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
96 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
97 * Various vmem improvements
98 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
100 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
101 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
104 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
105 * New audio output in memory (amem)
106 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
107 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
110 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
111 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
112 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
113 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
114 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
115 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
116 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
117 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
118 * New anti-flickering filter
119 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
120 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
121 blackbox and customizable shadow
124 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
127 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
128 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
129 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
130 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
131 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
132 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
133 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
134 * Major rework of VoD support
135 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
136 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
137 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
138 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
139 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
140 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
141 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
142 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
143 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
146 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
147 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
150 * New capabilities for libVLC:
151 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
152 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
153 list of available audio and video filters
154 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
155 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
158 * asademux: use libass only
159 * subsass: use libass
160 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
161 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
163 * upnp: use upnp_intel
164 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
165 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
166 * removal of the noise filter
167 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
170 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
171 ----------------------------------
174 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
175 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
178 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
179 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
180 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
181 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
182 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
184 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
185 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
186 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
188 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
189 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
192 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
195 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
198 * Fix quitting on Linux
199 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
203 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
206 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
209 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
210 ---------------------------------
212 Windows and Mac OS X:
213 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
216 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
217 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
220 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
223 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
226 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
228 Miscellaneous fixes in:
229 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
231 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
232 * RTP output and XML export
233 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
237 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
238 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
239 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
240 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
243 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
244 --------------------------------
246 Windows and Mac OS X:
247 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
250 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
253 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
254 * Improve Apple Remote handling
255 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
256 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
257 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
258 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
261 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
262 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
266 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
267 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
268 * New Luganda Translation
271 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
272 --------------------------------
275 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
278 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
279 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
280 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
281 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
284 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
286 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
287 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
288 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
289 * mp4 demuxer improvements
290 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
291 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
292 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
293 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
295 Miscellaneous fixes in:
296 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
297 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
298 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
299 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
300 * Configure and build system improvements
301 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
304 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
305 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
306 * New icelandic translation
309 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
310 --------------------------------
313 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
317 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
318 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
319 and stability reasons
322 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
326 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
329 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
330 ----------------------------------
333 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
336 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
337 ---------------------------------
340 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
341 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
342 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
343 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
346 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
349 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
350 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
351 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
352 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
355 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
356 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
357 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
359 Subtitles and renderer:
360 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
361 * Mark more freetype options as safe
362 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
363 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
364 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
367 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
368 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
369 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
370 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
373 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
374 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
377 * KDE device solid actions
379 * Transcode integer overflow
380 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
381 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
384 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
385 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
386 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
389 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
390 ----------------------------------
393 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
397 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
400 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
403 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
404 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
405 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
406 * Taglib thread-safety fix
409 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
413 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
416 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
419 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
420 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
422 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
426 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
427 * Miscellaneous fixes
430 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
431 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
433 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
434 * New Asturian translation
437 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
438 ----------------------------------
441 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
443 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
446 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
449 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
450 * Various fixes for Windows
453 * New Armenian translation
454 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
455 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
458 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
459 --------------------------------
462 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
464 * Fix folders opening from the interface
467 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
468 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
471 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
472 --------------------------------
475 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
476 * fix for podcasts parsing
477 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
480 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
481 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
484 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
485 * fix m3u playlists exports
488 * fix video autoresize behaviour
491 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
494 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
497 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
500 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
503 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
504 --------------------------------
507 * Avformat fps displaying fix
508 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
511 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
512 of mono streams, especially on Windows
515 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
516 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
517 * fix console output encoding
519 Interface and extensions:
520 * Youtube and other scripts updates
521 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
524 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
525 --------------------------------
528 * New capabilities for libVLC:
529 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
530 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
531 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
532 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
533 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
534 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
535 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
536 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
537 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
538 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
539 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
540 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
541 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
542 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
543 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
547 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
548 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
549 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
550 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
551 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
554 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
557 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
558 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
559 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
563 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
566 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
567 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
568 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
571 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
572 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
573 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
574 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
577 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
578 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
581 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
582 --------------------------------
584 Important changes for users:
585 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
586 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
588 Important changes for packagers:
589 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
590 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
591 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
592 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
593 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
595 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
597 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
598 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
599 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
600 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
601 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
604 * Support for the sftp protocol
605 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
606 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
607 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
608 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
609 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
612 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
613 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
614 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
616 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
617 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
618 * Invmem module improvements
619 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
620 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
621 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
622 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
623 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
624 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
625 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
626 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
627 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
628 * Support for VP8 codec
629 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
632 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
633 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
634 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
635 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
636 * Various EGP improvements
637 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
638 * Metadata and cover art improvements
641 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
642 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
643 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
644 * Podcast images are now displayed
647 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
648 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
649 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
650 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
651 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
652 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
653 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
654 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
655 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
656 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
657 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
660 * New content extensions lua framework
663 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
664 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
665 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
666 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
667 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
668 * NEON assembly audio converter module
669 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
672 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
673 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
674 * Service discovery based on libudev
675 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
678 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
679 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
680 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
681 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
682 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
683 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
684 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
687 * New smem module, streaming to memory
688 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
689 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
692 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
694 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
695 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
698 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
701 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
702 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
703 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
704 by Andy Matuschak et al.
705 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
706 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
707 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
710 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
711 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
714 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
715 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
716 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
720 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
721 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
722 * Improved Solaris port
725 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
726 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
729 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
730 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
731 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
732 * transrate: broken since too long
733 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
734 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
735 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
736 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
737 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
738 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
739 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
740 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
741 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
742 * cddax: use cdda instead.
743 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
744 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
745 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
746 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
749 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
750 --------------------------------
753 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
755 Decoders/Packetizers:
756 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
759 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
760 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
761 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
762 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
763 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
766 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
767 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
770 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
771 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
774 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
775 and Walloon translations updated
776 * Sinhala translation started
779 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
780 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
783 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
784 --------------------------------
787 * SubRip extra styles improvements
788 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
791 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
794 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
795 increase performance and fix x264 issues
798 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
799 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
800 Russian, Slovak translation updates
801 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
804 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
805 --------------------------------
808 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
809 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
812 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
813 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
816 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
817 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
820 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
823 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
824 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
827 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
828 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
831 * New Walloon translation
832 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
835 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
836 --------------------------------
839 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
840 regressions in most popular drivers
841 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
844 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
845 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
846 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
849 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
850 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
853 * Update for appletrailers lua script
854 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
855 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
856 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
857 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
860 * New udev module for linux
863 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
866 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
869 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
870 --------------------------------
873 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
874 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
875 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
878 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
879 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
882 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
883 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
886 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
889 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
890 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
891 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
892 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
895 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
896 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
897 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
898 - no support for Goom and SDL
899 - limited text rendering support
900 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
903 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
904 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
905 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
906 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
907 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
908 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
909 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
910 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
911 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
915 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
918 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
921 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
922 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
923 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
924 Arabic and French translation updates
927 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
932 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
933 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
934 * Fix Dailymotion access script
935 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
936 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
939 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
940 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
943 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
944 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
945 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
948 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
951 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
952 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
955 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
956 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
957 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
958 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
959 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
960 * Fix various crashes
963 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
965 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
968 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
969 ---------------------------------
973 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
974 See 'Access:' for more info.
975 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
978 * Instantaneous pausing
979 * Frame-by-Frame playback
980 * Finer speed control
981 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
982 * Timeshift for most medias
983 * RTSP trickplay support
984 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
987 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
988 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
989 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
990 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
991 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
992 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
993 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
994 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
995 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
996 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
999 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1000 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1001 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1002 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1003 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1004 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1005 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1008 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1009 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1012 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1013 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1014 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1015 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1016 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1017 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1018 * DVB scanning on linux
1019 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1020 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1021 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1022 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1023 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1024 * MTP device access on Unix
1025 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1026 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1029 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1030 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1031 Windows and Mac OS X.
1034 * Export the playlist in HTML
1035 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1036 * Better metadata handling and reading
1038 Linux/Windows interface:
1039 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1040 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1041 * Recently played items list
1042 * Interface toolbar customizations
1043 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1044 - More menus actions
1045 - Finer speed slider
1046 - Improvements on many dialogs
1047 - New dialog for plugins listing
1048 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1049 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1050 * Better integration in GTK environments
1053 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1054 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1055 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1056 * Additional usability improvements
1059 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1060 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1061 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1062 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1063 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1066 * New Maemo port with:
1067 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1068 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1071 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1074 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1075 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1076 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1077 * Support for latest iSight models
1080 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1081 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1084 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1085 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1086 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1087 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1088 The old image video output has been removed.
1089 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1090 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1093 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1101 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1102 --------------------------------------
1108 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1109 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1110 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1111 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1112 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1113 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1114 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1116 Various fixes to the following modules:
1119 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1120 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1121 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1123 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1128 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1129 ---------------------------------
1132 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1133 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1136 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1137 ---------------------------------
1140 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1143 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1146 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1147 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1148 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1149 main controller window.
1150 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1153 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1158 * Updates of other localizations
1161 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1162 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1163 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1164 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1165 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1168 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1169 ---------------------------------
1172 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1174 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1177 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1178 --------------------------------
1183 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1184 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1187 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1188 --------------------------------
1190 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1191 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1194 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1197 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1198 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1201 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1202 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1205 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1206 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1207 * Various fixed in playlist
1210 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1213 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1216 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1217 ------------------------------------
1219 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1220 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1223 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1224 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1225 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1228 * Stability fix for the video output.
1231 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1232 --------------------------------
1235 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1236 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1237 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1238 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1239 * Fixed update system bugs
1240 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1243 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1244 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1245 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1246 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1247 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1248 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1249 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1250 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1251 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1252 modern Mac OS X versions
1255 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1256 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1258 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1259 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1262 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1263 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1264 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1265 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1266 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1267 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1270 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1271 --------------------------------
1273 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1274 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1275 * Multiple bugfixes.
1278 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1279 --------------------------------
1281 * Multiple bug fixes.
1284 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1285 ---------------------------------
1289 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1290 recent to work correctly
1291 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1292 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1293 edit the ".hosts" file.
1294 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1295 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1296 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1297 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1298 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1299 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1300 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1301 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1302 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1303 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1304 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1305 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1306 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1307 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1308 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1309 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1310 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1311 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1312 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1313 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1314 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1315 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1316 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1317 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1318 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1319 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1320 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1321 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1322 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1323 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1324 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1325 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1326 and postproc modules.
1327 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1328 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1329 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1330 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1332 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1333 filter. For example:
1334 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1335 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1337 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1338 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1344 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1346 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1347 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1350 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1351 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1353 * Shoutcast TV listings
1354 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1356 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1357 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1359 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1362 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1363 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1364 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1365 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1366 * JACK audio input support
1367 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1368 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1369 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1370 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1371 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1372 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1373 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1374 (available as a separate download).
1375 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1376 * RTMP input support
1377 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1378 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1379 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1381 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1382 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1385 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1386 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1387 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1388 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1390 * APEv1/2 tags support
1391 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1392 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1394 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1395 * TiVo Series 2 support
1396 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1401 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1402 * Flash Screen Video support
1403 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1404 * DosBox Capture support
1405 * Karl Morton's Video support
1406 * limited atrac3 support
1408 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1409 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1410 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1411 * H.264 PAFF support
1412 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1413 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1414 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1415 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1416 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1419 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1420 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1421 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1422 * AQTitle subtitles support
1423 * MKV USF subtitles support
1424 * HTML-based subtitles support
1425 * MPSub subtitles support
1426 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1427 * MPL2 subtitles support
1428 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1429 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1430 * Realtext subtitle support
1431 * DKS subtitle support
1432 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1433 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1436 * Flash Screen Video support
1437 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1439 Video outputs and filters:
1440 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1441 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1442 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1443 * New puzzle video output filter
1444 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1445 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1447 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1448 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1449 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1450 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1451 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1452 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1453 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1454 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1455 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1456 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1457 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1458 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1459 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1460 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1462 Audio outputs and filters:
1463 * Replay gain support
1464 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1465 new scaletempo audio filter)
1466 * New spatializer audio filter
1467 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1470 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1471 * New RTP payload formats:
1472 * Speex voice audio codec
1473 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1474 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1475 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1476 * DCCP transport for RTP
1477 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1482 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1483 end-user suitable way.
1484 * Improved user interaction
1485 * Improved mouse gestures
1486 * Vastly improved Update checker
1487 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1489 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1490 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1492 * Improved video output features
1493 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1494 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1495 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1496 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1497 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1499 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1500 if libncursesw is available.
1501 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1502 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1503 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1505 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1506 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1507 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1508 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1509 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1510 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1511 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1512 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1515 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1516 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1517 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1520 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1521 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1522 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1523 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1524 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1525 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1528 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1529 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1539 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1540 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1541 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1544 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1545 ----------------------------------
1548 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1551 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1552 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1553 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1554 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1555 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1556 * Updated Polish translation
1559 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1560 ----------------------------------
1563 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1564 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1565 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1568 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1569 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1570 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1571 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1572 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1573 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1574 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1575 to an unexpected application termination
1576 * New Serbian translation
1577 * Updated Romanian translation
1580 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1581 ----------------------------------
1584 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1585 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1586 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1587 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1588 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1589 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1590 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1591 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1594 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1595 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1596 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1597 * Fixed AAC resampling
1598 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1599 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1602 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1603 ----------------------------------
1606 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1607 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1608 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1609 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1610 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1613 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1614 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1615 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1616 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1617 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1620 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1621 ----------------------------------
1624 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1625 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1628 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1629 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1630 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1631 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1633 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1637 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1640 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1643 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1646 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1649 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1650 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1651 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1652 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1653 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1655 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1656 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1657 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1658 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1661 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1664 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1665 ----------------------------------
1668 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1669 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1670 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1672 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1673 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1675 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1676 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1679 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1681 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1682 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1683 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1684 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1685 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1686 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1687 two different movies
1688 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1689 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1690 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1693 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1696 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1697 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1698 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1699 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1702 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1703 ----------------------------------
1705 Various bugfixes, notably:
1706 * Windows Vista compatibility
1707 * Cropping in Direct3D
1708 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1709 * RSS filter string overflow
1711 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1713 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1714 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1717 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1718 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1721 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1724 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1727 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1730 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1731 ----------------------------------
1733 Various bugfixes, notably:
1734 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1735 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1736 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1737 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1738 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1739 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1742 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1743 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1746 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1748 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1749 * Diverse usability improvements
1750 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1751 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1752 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1755 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1756 ---------------------------------
1758 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1759 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1762 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1765 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1766 --------------------------------
1769 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1772 * Support for RTSP authentication
1773 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1774 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1775 * ATSC support for DVB input
1776 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1777 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1778 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1781 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1782 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1783 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1784 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1785 * Matroska WavPack support
1786 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1787 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1788 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1791 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1792 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1793 * Improved libcaca support
1797 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1798 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1800 * Systray support in skins
1802 * Support for Apple Remote control
1803 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1804 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1805 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1806 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1808 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1811 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1812 Windows 9x/ME users:
1813 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1814 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1815 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1816 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1817 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1819 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1820 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1829 * Updates to the libvlc API
1830 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1833 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1834 --------------------------------
1837 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1838 * Support for downloading updates
1842 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1843 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1844 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1845 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1847 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1848 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1849 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1852 * Cook (Real audio) support
1854 Playlist / Services discovery:
1855 * XSPF playlist support
1857 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1860 * New JACK audio output
1863 * New video filters:
1864 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1865 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1866 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1867 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1868 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1869 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1872 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1875 * System to inform the user and request information
1876 - HTTP authentication
1880 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1881 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1882 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1885 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1886 - Improved playlist handling
1887 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1889 - Embedded Video output
1890 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1891 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1892 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1893 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1894 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1896 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1897 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1900 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1903 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1904 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1905 * Growl "Now playing" support
1908 * Ability to log to syslog
1909 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1912 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1914 * A bit more automatic testing
1917 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1918 ---------------------------------
1921 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1922 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1925 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1926 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1929 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1932 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1933 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1939 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1942 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1943 --------------------------------
1946 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1950 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1951 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1952 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1955 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1956 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1957 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1958 * GnomeVFS input module
1959 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1960 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1963 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1964 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1965 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1968 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1969 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1975 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1976 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1979 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1980 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1981 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1984 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1986 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1987 - New extended controls panel
1988 - New bookmarks window
1989 - Fixed playlist sorting
1990 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1992 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1993 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1994 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1995 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1999 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2000 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2002 - Include macro to include other files
2006 * Should now work outside IE as well
2009 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2012 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2013 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2016 The following languages were added:
2020 * Simplified Chinese
2021 The following languages were re-added:
2025 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2026 --------------------------------
2029 * Rewrite of the playlist
2031 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2032 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2033 * Preferences improvements:
2034 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2035 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2037 * Core image manipulation support
2038 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2039 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2040 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2041 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2042 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2043 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2044 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2045 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2046 * Access filter architecture
2047 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2048 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2052 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2053 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2054 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2055 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2056 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2057 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2058 * Massive Matroska improvements
2059 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2061 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2062 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2063 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2064 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2065 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2067 Decoders / Encoders:
2068 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2069 * PNG decoder/encoder
2070 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2071 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2074 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2077 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2078 * Brand new SAP module
2079 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2080 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2081 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2082 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2083 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2084 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2088 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2091 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2092 * Image file video output (png)
2093 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2094 * Improvements to wall video filter
2095 * Support for font color and opacity
2101 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2102 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2103 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2107 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2108 - Improved preferences
2109 - Improvements to the wizard
2110 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2112 - Redesigned playlist
2113 - Improved preferences
2115 - Support for multiple actions
2118 - Support for the new playlist system
2120 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2123 * Screensaver disabling fix
2124 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2125 * Support for no-decoration windows
2128 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2129 * The OpenGL video output is back
2130 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2131 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2132 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2133 is not yet available in the new module
2134 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2137 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2146 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2149 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2152 The following languages were added:
2158 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2159 --------------------------------
2162 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2163 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2166 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2167 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2168 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2171 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2174 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2177 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2180 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2181 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2182 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2186 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2188 * Support of playlist group announcement
2191 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2192 --------------------------------
2195 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2196 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2197 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2198 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2199 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2200 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2203 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2204 (Stream your desktop)
2205 * Improved DVD support:
2206 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2207 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2208 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2209 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2210 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2211 (selection of titles/chapters).
2214 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2215 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2216 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2217 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2218 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2219 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2220 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2221 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2222 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2223 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2226 * G.726 audio support
2227 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2228 * MPEG-4 text support
2229 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2230 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2231 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2235 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2236 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2237 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2238 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2239 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2240 * DVB subtitles encoder
2241 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2242 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2244 * Text track muxing for mp4
2245 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2246 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2247 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2248 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2249 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2250 * Improved ASF muxer
2252 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2253 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2254 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2257 * New audio equalizer filter
2258 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2259 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2260 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2261 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2264 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2265 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2266 with support for effects.
2267 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2268 - New filters can be streamed.
2269 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2270 - Centralized scaling and blending
2272 - "time", to display current time
2273 - "marq", to display a marquee
2276 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2277 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2278 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2279 * A few skins2 improvements
2280 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2281 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2282 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2283 * Improved CORBA control module
2286 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2287 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2288 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2291 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2292 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2293 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2296 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2297 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2298 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2299 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2300 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2303 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2306 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2307 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2310 * Server/client network synchronization module
2311 * VBrick streams fully supported
2312 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2316 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2317 --------------------------------
2320 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2321 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2322 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2323 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2326 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2327 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2328 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2329 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2330 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2331 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2332 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2335 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2336 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2337 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2338 * Improved directory access module.
2339 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2340 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2341 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2342 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2343 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2346 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2347 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2348 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2351 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2352 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2353 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2356 * Improved session announcement system.
2357 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2358 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2359 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2360 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2361 * Improved transrater.
2362 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2363 * New configuration system.
2364 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2367 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2368 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2369 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2370 * Supports scheduling.
2371 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2372 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2375 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2376 - Ability to embed video output.
2377 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2378 - Lots of improvements.
2379 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2380 - New design and set of icons.
2381 - Ability to embed video output.
2382 - Support for hotkeys.
2383 - Support for bookmarks.
2385 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2386 - Better hotkeys handling.
2389 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2390 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2391 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2392 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2395 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2396 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2397 * Improved Windows installer.
2403 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2404 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2407 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2408 ---------------------------------
2411 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2412 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2415 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2416 --------------------------------
2419 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2420 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2423 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2424 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2425 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2426 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2429 * Internal improvments
2430 * Improved import/export
2433 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2435 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2436 small and strange formats.
2438 * New MOD audio demux.
2439 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2440 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2441 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2442 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2445 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2446 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2447 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2453 * New opengl video output plugin.
2456 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2457 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2460 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2461 --------------------------------
2464 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2465 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2466 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2467 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2468 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2469 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2470 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2471 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2474 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2479 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2480 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2481 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2482 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2483 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2484 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2485 * Better Icecast support.
2486 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2487 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2490 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2491 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2492 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2493 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2494 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2495 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2496 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2499 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2500 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2501 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2502 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2503 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2504 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2505 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2506 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2507 * Preliminary RTP support.
2508 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2513 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2514 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2516 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2517 - Improvements and help in preferences
2518 - New streaming wizard
2519 - Revised Disc Open menu
2521 - Improvements of the standard pages
2522 - Support for new commands
2523 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2526 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2527 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2530 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2531 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2532 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2533 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2534 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2535 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2536 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2537 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2538 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2541 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2543 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2544 * Support for Panther.
2545 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2546 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2549 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2550 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2551 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2552 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2553 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2554 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2555 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2556 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2559 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2560 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2561 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2564 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2567 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2568 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2569 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2570 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2573 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2574 --------------------------------
2577 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2580 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2581 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2584 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2585 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2588 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2591 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2592 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2595 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2598 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2601 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2602 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2606 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2607 --------------------------------
2610 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2611 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2615 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2616 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2617 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2619 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2620 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2623 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2626 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2629 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2630 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2634 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2635 --------------------------------
2638 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2639 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2643 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2644 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2645 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2646 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2647 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2650 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2651 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2652 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2655 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2656 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2657 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2660 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2661 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2662 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2663 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2664 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2667 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2668 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2669 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2672 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2675 * Improved build system.
2676 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2677 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2678 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2679 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2682 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2683 --------------------------------
2686 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2689 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2690 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2691 * Video 4 Linux support
2692 * CD Digital Audio support
2693 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2696 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2697 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2698 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2699 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2702 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2703 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2704 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2705 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2706 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2707 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2708 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2711 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2712 * New HTTP remote control interface
2715 * 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.
2716 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2717 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2718 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2721 * New reset option for the preferences
2722 * You can set your language in the prefences
2723 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2724 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2725 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2726 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2729 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2730 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2731 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2734 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2735 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2736 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2737 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2738 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2739 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2740 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2741 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2742 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2743 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2746 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2747 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2748 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2749 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2750 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2751 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2752 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2755 * Interface localization
2756 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2757 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2758 * New full-featured Preferences window
2761 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2762 --------------------------------
2765 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2766 * support for skins at the interface level
2767 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2768 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2769 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2770 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2771 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2774 * fixed HTTP redirects
2775 * support for opening an entire directory
2776 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2777 * new video4linux access plug-in
2778 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2781 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2782 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2783 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2786 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2787 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2788 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2789 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2790 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2791 * new codec for raw I420 video
2792 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2795 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2796 (although it still misses some important features)
2797 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2800 * new HTTP output support
2801 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2802 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2805 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2808 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2811 * reorderable playlist
2812 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2813 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2814 * support for mono audio output devices
2815 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2816 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2817 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2818 * the messages window remembers more lines
2819 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2820 * http and ogg stream output options
2821 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2824 * new skinnable interface
2825 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2827 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2828 * support for FLAC audio format
2829 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2831 * network tab in the interface
2832 * "apply" handling in preferences
2835 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2836 ---------------------------------
2839 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2840 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2841 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2842 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2844 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2845 * DTS S/PDIF support
2848 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2849 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2850 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2851 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2854 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2855 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2858 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2861 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2864 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2866 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2867 * rc interface is now fully useable
2868 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2871 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2872 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2873 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2874 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2875 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2877 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2878 * support for mouse gestures
2879 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2882 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2883 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2886 * improved ID3 tag detection
2887 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2888 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2889 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2891 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2894 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2895 ---------------------------------
2898 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2899 English was set as the preferred language
2902 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2903 --------------------------------
2906 * new mouse gesture interface
2907 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2911 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2912 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2913 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2916 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2917 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2921 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2924 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2925 without the user consent
2928 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2930 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2931 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2932 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2935 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2936 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2937 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2938 * playlist enhancements
2939 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2940 * new step forward/step backward commands
2941 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2942 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2943 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2946 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2947 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2948 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2951 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2952 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2955 * native video output is working again
2956 * only commandline interface support
2957 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2960 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2961 --------------------------------
2964 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2965 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2966 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2967 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2968 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2969 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2970 and A/52 streams are supported)
2971 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2976 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2977 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2978 * VCD entry points support
2979 * VCD image file support
2982 * support for *.asf format
2983 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2984 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2985 * support for ogg encapsulation
2986 * support for raw DV format
2987 * support for *.wav format
2988 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2991 Stream discovery & playlists:
2992 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2993 * support for .m3u file format
2994 * support for .asx file format
2995 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2998 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2999 (only available with the .avi demux)
3000 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3001 * support for raw PCM data
3002 * support for Cinepak video codec
3003 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3004 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3005 * support for Xvid codec
3006 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3007 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3008 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3010 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3012 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3015 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3018 * new WxWindows interface
3019 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3020 device and the channels configuration
3021 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3022 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3023 format that VLC can play
3024 * new swedish translation
3025 * enhancements of the playlist window
3026 * new messages window to see debug info
3027 * fixed a few crashes
3030 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3031 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3032 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3033 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working