1 Changes between 0.9.3 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
16 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items
22 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
23 --------------------------------
26 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
27 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
28 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
29 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
30 * Fixed update system bugs
31 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
34 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
35 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
36 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
37 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
38 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
39 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
40 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
41 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
42 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
43 modern Mac OS X versions
46 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
47 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
49 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
50 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
53 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
54 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
55 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
56 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
57 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
58 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
61 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
62 --------------------------------
64 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
65 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
69 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
70 --------------------------------
75 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
76 ---------------------------------
80 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
81 recent to work correctly
82 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
83 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
84 edit the ".hosts" file.
85 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
86 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
87 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
88 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
89 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
90 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
91 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
92 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
93 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
94 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
95 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
96 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
97 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
98 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
99 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
100 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
101 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
102 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
103 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
104 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
105 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
106 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
107 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
108 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
109 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
110 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
111 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
112 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
113 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
114 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
115 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
116 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
117 and postproc modules.
118 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
119 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
120 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
121 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
123 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
125 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
126 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
128 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
129 * Glide video output module has been removed.
135 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
137 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
138 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
141 * Vastly improved playlist support:
142 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
144 * Shoutcast TV listings
145 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
147 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
148 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
150 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
153 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
154 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
155 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
156 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
157 * JACK audio input support
158 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
159 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
160 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
161 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
162 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
163 * Experimental EyeTV access module
164 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
165 (available as a separate download).
166 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
168 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
169 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
170 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
172 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
173 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
176 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
177 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
178 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
179 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
181 * APEv1/2 tags support
182 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
183 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
185 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
186 * TiVo Series 2 support
187 * CD+G karaoke Files support
192 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
193 * Flash Screen Video support
194 * CamStudio Screen Video support
195 * DosBox Capture support
196 * Karl Morton's Video support
197 * limited atrac3 support
199 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
200 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
201 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
203 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
204 * NellyMoser ASAO support
205 * APE (Monkey audio) support
206 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
207 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
210 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
211 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
212 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
213 * AQTitle subtitles support
214 * MKV USF subtitles support
215 * HTML-based subtitles support
216 * MPSub subtitles support
217 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
218 * MPL2 subtitles support
219 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
220 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
221 * Realtext subtitle support
222 * DKS subtitle support
223 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
224 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
227 * Flash Screen Video support
228 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
230 Video outputs and filters:
231 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
232 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
233 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
234 * New puzzle video output filter
235 * Re-written motion detection video filter
236 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
238 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
239 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
240 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
241 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
242 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
243 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
244 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
245 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
246 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
247 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
248 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
249 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
250 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
251 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
253 Audio outputs and filters:
254 * Replay gain support
255 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
256 new scaletempo audio filter)
257 * New spatializer audio filter
258 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
261 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
262 * New RTP payload formats:
263 * Speex voice audio codec
264 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
265 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
266 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
267 * DCCP transport for RTP
268 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
273 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
274 end-user suitable way.
275 * Improved user interaction
276 * Improved mouse gestures
277 * Vastly improved Update checker
278 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
280 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
281 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
283 * Improved video output features
284 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
285 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
286 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
287 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
288 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
290 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
291 if libncursesw is available.
292 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
293 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
294 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
296 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
297 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
298 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
299 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
300 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
301 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
302 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
303 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
306 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
307 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
308 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
311 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
312 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
313 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
314 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
315 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
316 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
319 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
320 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
330 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
331 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
332 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
335 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
336 ----------------------------------
339 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
342 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
343 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
344 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
345 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
346 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
347 * Updated Polish translation
350 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
351 ----------------------------------
354 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
355 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
356 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
359 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
360 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
361 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
362 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
363 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
364 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
365 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
366 to an unexpected application termination
367 * New Serbian translation
368 * Updated Romanian translation
371 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
372 ----------------------------------
375 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
376 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
377 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
378 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
379 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
380 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
381 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
382 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
385 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
386 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
387 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
388 * Fixed AAC resampling
389 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
390 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
393 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
394 ----------------------------------
397 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
398 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
399 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
400 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
401 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
404 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
405 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
406 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
407 * Close MMS access on network timeout
408 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
411 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
412 ----------------------------------
415 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
416 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
419 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
420 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
421 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
422 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
424 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
428 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
431 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
434 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
437 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
440 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
441 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
442 encoding on multi-cpu systems
443 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
444 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
446 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
447 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
448 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
449 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
452 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
455 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
456 ----------------------------------
459 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
460 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
461 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
463 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
464 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
466 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
467 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
470 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
472 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
473 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
474 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
475 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
476 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
477 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
479 * Support for current Ogg file formats
480 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
481 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
484 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
487 * The automatic updating facility was removed
488 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
489 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
490 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
493 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
494 ----------------------------------
496 Various bugfixes, notably:
497 * Windows Vista compatibility
498 * Cropping in Direct3D
499 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
500 * RSS filter string overflow
502 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
504 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
505 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
508 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
509 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
512 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
515 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
518 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
521 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
522 ----------------------------------
524 Various bugfixes, notably:
525 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
526 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
527 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
528 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
529 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
530 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
533 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
534 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
537 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
539 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
540 * Diverse usability improvements
541 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
542 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
543 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
546 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
547 ---------------------------------
550 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
553 * Fullscreen controller improvements
556 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
557 --------------------------------
560 * Shoutcast TV listings support
563 * Support for RTSP authentication
564 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
565 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
566 * ATSC support for DVB input
567 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
568 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
569 * Improved support for Flash Video files
572 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
573 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
574 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
575 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
576 * Matroska WavPack support
577 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
578 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
579 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
582 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
583 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
584 * Improved libcaca support
588 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
589 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
591 * Systray support in skins
593 * Support for Apple Remote control
594 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
595 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
596 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
597 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
599 * Notifications using notification-daemon
602 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
604 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
605 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
606 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
607 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
608 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
610 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
611 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
620 * Updates to the libvlc API
621 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
624 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
625 --------------------------------
628 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
629 * Support for downloading updates
633 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
634 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
635 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
636 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
638 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
639 * Improved subtitles encoding support
640 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
643 * Cook (Real audio) support
645 Playlist / Services discovery:
646 * XSPF playlist support
648 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
651 * New JACK audio output
655 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
656 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
657 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
658 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
659 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
660 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
663 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
666 * System to inform the user and request information
667 - HTTP authentication
671 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
672 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
673 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
676 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
677 - Improved playlist handling
678 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
680 - Embedded Video output
681 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
682 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
683 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
684 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
685 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
687 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
688 - A bunch of new RPN functions
691 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
694 * Mac-Intel compatibility
695 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
696 * Growl "Now playing" support
699 * Ability to log to syslog
700 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
703 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
705 * A bit more automatic testing
708 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
709 ---------------------------------
712 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
713 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
716 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
717 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
720 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
723 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
724 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
730 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
733 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
734 --------------------------------
737 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
741 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
742 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
743 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
746 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
747 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
748 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
749 * GnomeVFS input module
750 * Support for RTP packet reordering
751 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
754 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
755 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
756 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
759 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
760 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
766 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
767 Mixer and Dolby Surround
770 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
771 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
772 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
775 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
777 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
778 - New extended controls panel
779 - New bookmarks window
780 - Fixed playlist sorting
781 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
783 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
784 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
785 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
786 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
790 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
791 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
793 - Include macro to include other files
797 * Should now work outside IE as well
800 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
803 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
804 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
807 The following languages were added:
812 The following languages were re-added:
816 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
817 --------------------------------
820 * Rewrite of the playlist
822 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
823 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
824 * Preferences improvements:
825 - New organization, designed to improve usability
826 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
828 * Core image manipulation support
829 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
830 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
831 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
832 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
833 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
834 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
835 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
836 now separated by ':' instead of ','
837 * Access filter architecture
838 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
839 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
843 * Support for SOCKS proxy
844 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
845 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
846 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
847 * Better support for Kasenna streams
848 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
849 * Massive Matroska improvements
850 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
852 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
853 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
854 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
855 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
856 * Support for FTP over IPv6
859 * Dirac decoder and encoder
860 * PNG decoder/encoder
861 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
862 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
865 * New Record and Timeshift filters
868 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
869 * Brand new SAP module
870 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
871 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
872 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
873 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
874 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
875 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
879 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
882 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
883 * Image file video output (png)
884 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
885 * Improvements to wall video filter
886 * Support for font color and opacity
892 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
893 - Seeking support in VoD streams
894 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
898 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
899 - Improved preferences
900 - Improvements to the wizard
901 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
903 - Redesigned playlist
904 - Improved preferences
906 - Support for multiple actions
909 - Support for the new playlist system
911 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
914 * Screensaver disabling fix
915 * DirectShow tuner configuration
916 * Support for no-decoration windows
919 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
920 * The OpenGL video output is back
921 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
922 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
923 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
924 is not yet available in the new module
925 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
928 * Support for single-buffered overlay
937 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
940 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
943 The following languages were added:
949 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
950 --------------------------------
953 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
954 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
957 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
958 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
959 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
962 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
965 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
968 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
971 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
972 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
973 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
977 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
979 * Support of playlist group announcement
982 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
983 --------------------------------
986 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
987 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
988 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
989 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
990 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
991 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
994 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
995 (Stream your desktop)
996 * Improved DVD support:
997 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
998 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
999 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1000 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1001 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1002 (selection of titles/chapters).
1005 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1006 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1007 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1008 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1009 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1010 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1011 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1012 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1013 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1014 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1017 * G.726 audio support
1018 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1019 * MPEG-4 text support
1020 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1021 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1022 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1026 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1027 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1028 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1029 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1030 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1031 * DVB subtitles encoder
1032 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1033 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1035 * Text track muxing for mp4
1036 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1037 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1038 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1039 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1040 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1041 * Improved ASF muxer
1043 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1044 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1045 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1048 * New audio equalizer filter
1049 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1050 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1051 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1052 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1055 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1056 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1057 with support for effects.
1058 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1059 - New filters can be streamed.
1060 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1061 - Centralized scaling and blending
1063 - "time", to display current time
1064 - "marq", to display a marquee
1067 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1068 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1069 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1070 * A few skins2 improvements
1071 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1072 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1073 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1074 * Improved CORBA control module
1077 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1078 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1079 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1082 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1083 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1084 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1087 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1088 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1089 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1090 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1091 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1094 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1097 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1098 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1101 * Server/client network synchronization module
1102 * VBrick streams fully supported
1103 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1107 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1108 --------------------------------
1111 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1112 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1113 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1114 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1117 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1118 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1119 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1120 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1121 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1122 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1123 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1126 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1127 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1128 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1129 * Improved directory access module.
1130 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1131 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1132 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1133 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1134 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1137 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1138 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1139 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1142 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1143 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1144 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1147 * Improved session announcement system.
1148 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1149 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1150 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1151 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1152 * Improved transrater.
1153 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1154 * New configuration system.
1155 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1158 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1159 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1160 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1161 * Supports scheduling.
1162 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1163 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1166 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1167 - Ability to embed video output.
1168 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1169 - Lots of improvements.
1170 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1171 - New design and set of icons.
1172 - Ability to embed video output.
1173 - Support for hotkeys.
1174 - Support for bookmarks.
1176 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1177 - Better hotkeys handling.
1180 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1181 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1182 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1183 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1186 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1187 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1188 * Improved Windows installer.
1194 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1195 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1198 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1199 ---------------------------------
1202 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1203 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1206 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1207 --------------------------------
1210 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1211 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1214 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1215 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1216 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1217 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1220 * Internal improvments
1221 * Improved import/export
1224 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1226 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1227 small and strange formats.
1229 * New MOD audio demux.
1230 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1231 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1232 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1233 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1236 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1237 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1238 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1244 * New opengl video output plugin.
1247 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1248 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1251 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1252 --------------------------------
1255 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1256 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1257 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1258 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1259 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1260 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1261 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1262 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1265 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1270 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1271 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1272 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1273 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1274 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1275 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1276 * Better Icecast support.
1277 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1278 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1281 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1282 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1283 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1284 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1285 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1286 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1287 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1290 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1291 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1292 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1293 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1294 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1295 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1296 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1297 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1298 * Preliminary RTP support.
1299 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1304 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1305 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1307 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1308 - Improvements and help in preferences
1309 - New streaming wizard
1310 - Revised Disc Open menu
1312 - Improvements of the standard pages
1313 - Support for new commands
1314 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1317 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1318 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1321 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1322 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1323 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1324 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1325 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1326 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1327 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1328 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1329 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1332 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1334 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1335 * Support for Panther.
1336 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1337 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1340 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1341 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1342 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1343 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1344 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1345 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1346 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1347 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1350 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1351 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1352 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1355 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1358 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1359 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1360 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1361 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1364 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1365 --------------------------------
1368 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1371 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1372 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1375 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1376 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1379 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1382 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1383 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1386 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1389 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1392 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1393 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1397 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1398 --------------------------------
1401 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1402 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1406 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1407 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1408 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1410 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1411 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1414 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1417 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1420 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1421 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1425 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1426 --------------------------------
1429 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1430 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1434 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1435 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1436 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1437 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1438 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1441 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1442 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1443 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1446 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1447 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1448 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1451 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1452 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1453 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1454 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1455 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1458 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1459 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1460 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1463 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1466 * Improved build system.
1467 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1468 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1469 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1470 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1473 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1480 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1481 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1482 * Video 4 Linux support
1483 * CD Digital Audio support
1484 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1487 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1488 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1489 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1490 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1493 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1494 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1495 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1496 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1497 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1498 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1499 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1502 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1503 * New HTTP remote control interface
1506 * 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.
1507 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1508 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1509 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1512 * New reset option for the preferences
1513 * You can set your language in the prefences
1514 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1515 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1516 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1517 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1520 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1521 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1522 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1525 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1526 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1527 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1528 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1529 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1530 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1531 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1532 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1533 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1534 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1537 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1538 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1539 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1540 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1541 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1542 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1543 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1546 * Interface localization
1547 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1548 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1549 * New full-featured Preferences window
1552 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1553 --------------------------------
1556 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1557 * support for skins at the interface level
1558 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1559 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1560 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1561 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1562 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1565 * fixed HTTP redirects
1566 * support for opening an entire directory
1567 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1568 * new video4linux access plug-in
1569 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1572 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1573 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1574 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1577 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1578 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1579 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1580 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1581 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1582 * new codec for raw I420 video
1583 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1586 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1587 (although it still misses some important features)
1588 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1591 * new HTTP output support
1592 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1593 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1596 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1599 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1602 * reorderable playlist
1603 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1604 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1605 * support for mono audio output devices
1606 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1607 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1608 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1609 * the messages window remembers more lines
1610 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1611 * http and ogg stream output options
1612 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1615 * new skinnable interface
1616 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1618 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1619 * support for FLAC audio format
1620 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1622 * network tab in the interface
1623 * "apply" handling in preferences
1626 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1627 ---------------------------------
1630 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1631 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1632 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1633 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1635 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1636 * DTS S/PDIF support
1639 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1640 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1641 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1642 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1645 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1646 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1649 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1652 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1655 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1657 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1658 * rc interface is now fully useable
1659 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1662 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1663 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1664 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1665 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1666 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1668 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1669 * support for mouse gestures
1670 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1673 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1674 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1677 * improved ID3 tag detection
1678 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1679 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1680 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1682 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1685 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1686 ---------------------------------
1689 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1690 English was set as the preferred language
1693 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1694 --------------------------------
1697 * new mouse gesture interface
1698 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1702 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1703 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1704 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1707 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1708 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1712 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1715 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1716 without the user consent
1719 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1721 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1722 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1723 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1726 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1727 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1728 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1729 * playlist enhancements
1730 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1731 * new step forward/step backward commands
1732 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1733 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1734 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1737 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1738 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1739 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1742 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1743 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1746 * native video output is working again
1747 * only commandline interface support
1748 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1751 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1752 --------------------------------
1755 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1756 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1757 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1758 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1759 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1760 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1761 and A/52 streams are supported)
1762 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1767 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1768 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1769 * VCD entry points support
1770 * VCD image file support
1773 * support for *.asf format
1774 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1775 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1776 * support for ogg encapsulation
1777 * support for raw DV format
1778 * support for *.wav format
1779 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1782 Stream discovery & playlists:
1783 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1784 * support for .m3u file format
1785 * support for .asx file format
1786 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1789 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1790 (only available with the .avi demux)
1791 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1792 * support for raw PCM data
1793 * support for Cinepak video codec
1794 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1795 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1796 * support for Xvid codec
1797 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1798 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1799 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1801 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1803 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1806 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1809 * new WxWindows interface
1810 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1811 device and the channels configuration
1812 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1813 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1814 format that VLC can play
1815 * new swedish translation
1816 * enhancements of the playlist window
1817 * new messages window to see debug info
1818 * fixed a few crashes
1821 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1822 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1823 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1824 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working