3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
39 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
45 * Vastly improved playlist support:
46 * Media library support
48 * Shoutcast TV listings
49 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
51 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
52 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
53 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
54 share/lua/meta/README.txt
57 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
58 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
59 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
60 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
61 * JACK audio input support
62 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
63 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
64 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
65 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
66 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
67 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
68 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
69 (available as a separate download).
71 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
72 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
73 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
75 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
76 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
79 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
80 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
81 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
82 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
84 * APEv1/2 tags support
85 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
86 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
88 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
89 * TiVo Series 2 support
90 * CD+G karaoke Files support
94 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
95 * Flash Screen Video support
96 * CamStudio Screen Video support
97 * DosBox Capture support
98 * Karl Morton's Video support
99 * limited atrac3 support
100 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
101 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
102 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
103 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
105 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
106 * NellyMoser ASAO support
107 * APE (Monkey audio) support
108 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
109 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
112 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
113 * AQTitle subtitles support
114 * MKV USF subtitles support
115 * HTML-based subtitles support
116 * MPSub subtitles support
117 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
118 * MPL2 subtitles support
119 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
120 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
121 * Realtext subtitle support
122 * DKS subtitle support
123 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
126 * Flash Screen Video support
127 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
129 Video outputs and filters:
130 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
131 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
132 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
133 * New puzzle video output filter
134 * Re-written motion detection video filter
135 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
137 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
138 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
139 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
140 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
141 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
142 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
143 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
144 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
145 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
146 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
147 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
148 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
150 Audio outputs and filters:
151 * Replay gain support
152 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
153 * New spatializer audio filter
154 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
157 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
158 * New RTP payload formats:
159 * Speex voice audio codec
160 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
161 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
162 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
163 * DCCP transport for RTP
164 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
169 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
171 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
172 end-user suitable way.
173 * Improved user interaction
174 * Improved mouse gestures
175 * Vastly improved Update checker
176 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
178 * Improved video output features
179 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
180 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
181 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
182 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
184 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
185 if libncursesw is available.
186 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
187 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
189 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
190 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
191 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
192 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
193 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
194 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
195 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
196 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
199 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
200 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
201 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
204 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
205 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
206 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
207 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
208 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
209 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
212 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
213 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
221 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
222 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
223 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
226 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
227 ----------------------------------
230 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
231 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
232 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
235 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
236 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
237 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
238 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
239 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
240 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
241 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
242 to an unexpected application termination
243 * New Serbian translation
244 * Updated Romanian translation
247 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
248 ----------------------------------
251 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
252 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
253 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
254 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
255 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
256 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
257 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
258 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
261 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
262 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
263 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
264 * Fixed AAC resampling
265 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
266 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
269 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
270 ----------------------------------
273 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
274 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
275 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
276 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
277 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
280 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
281 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
282 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
283 * Close MMS access on network timeout
284 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
287 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
288 ----------------------------------
291 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
292 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
295 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
296 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
297 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
298 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
300 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
304 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
307 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
310 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
313 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
316 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
317 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
318 encoding on multi-cpu systems
319 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
320 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
322 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
323 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
324 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
325 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
328 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
331 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
332 ----------------------------------
335 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
336 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
337 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
339 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
340 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
342 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
343 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
346 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
348 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
349 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
350 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
351 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
352 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
353 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
355 * Support for current Ogg file formats
356 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
357 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
360 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
363 * The automatic updating facility was removed
364 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
365 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
366 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
369 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
370 ----------------------------------
372 Various bugfixes, notably:
373 * Windows Vista compatibility
374 * Cropping in Direct3D
375 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
376 * RSS filter string overflow
378 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
380 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
381 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
384 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
385 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
388 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
391 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
394 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
397 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
398 ----------------------------------
400 Various bugfixes, notably:
401 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
402 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
403 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
404 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
405 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
406 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
409 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
410 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
413 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
415 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
416 * Diverse usability improvements
417 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
418 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
419 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
422 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
423 ---------------------------------
426 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
429 * Fullscreen controller improvements
432 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
433 --------------------------------
436 * Shoutcast TV listings support
439 * Support for RTSP authentication
440 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
441 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
442 * ATSC support for DVB input
443 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
444 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
445 * Improved support for Flash Video files
448 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
449 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
450 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
451 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
452 * Matroska WavPack support
453 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
454 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
455 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
458 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
459 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
460 * Improved libcaca support
464 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
465 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
467 * Systray support in skins
469 * Support for Apple Remote control
470 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
471 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
472 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
473 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
475 * Notifications using notification-daemon
478 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
480 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
481 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
482 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
483 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
484 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
486 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
487 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
496 * Updates to the libvlc API
497 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
500 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
501 --------------------------------
504 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
505 * Support for downloading updates
509 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
510 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
511 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
512 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
514 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
515 * Improved subtitles encoding support
516 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
519 * Cook (Real audio) support
521 Playlist / Services discovery:
522 * XSPF playlist support
524 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
527 * New JACK audio output
531 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
532 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
533 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
534 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
535 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
536 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
539 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
542 * System to inform the user and request information
543 - HTTP authentication
547 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
548 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
549 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
552 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
553 - Improved playlist handling
554 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
556 - Embedded Video output
557 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
558 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
559 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
560 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
561 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
563 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
564 - A bunch of new RPN functions
567 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
570 * Mac-Intel compatibility
571 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
572 * Growl "Now playing" support
575 * Ability to log to syslog
576 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
579 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
581 * A bit more automatic testing
584 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
585 ---------------------------------
588 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
589 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
592 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
593 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
596 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
599 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
600 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
606 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
609 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
610 --------------------------------
613 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
617 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
618 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
619 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
622 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
623 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
624 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
625 * GnomeVFS input module
626 * Support for RTP packet reordering
627 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
630 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
631 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
632 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
635 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
636 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
642 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
643 Mixer and Dolby Surround
646 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
647 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
648 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
651 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
653 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
654 - New extended controls panel
655 - New bookmarks window
656 - Fixed playlist sorting
657 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
659 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
660 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
661 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
662 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
666 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
667 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
669 - Include macro to include other files
673 * Should now work outside IE as well
676 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
679 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
680 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
683 The following languages were added:
688 The following languages were re-added:
692 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
693 --------------------------------
696 * Rewrite of the playlist
698 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
699 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
700 * Preferences improvements:
701 - New organization, designed to improve usability
702 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
704 * Core image manipulation support
705 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
706 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
707 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
708 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
709 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
710 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
711 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
712 now separated by ':' instead of ','
713 * Access filter architecture
714 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
715 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
719 * Support for SOCKS proxy
720 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
721 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
722 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
723 * Better support for Kasenna streams
724 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
725 * Massive Matroska improvements
726 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
728 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
729 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
730 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
731 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
732 * Support for FTP over IPv6
735 * Dirac decoder and encoder
736 * PNG decoder/encoder
737 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
738 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
741 * New Record and Timeshift filters
744 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
745 * Brand new SAP module
746 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
747 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
748 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
749 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
750 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
751 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
755 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
758 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
759 * Image file video output (png)
760 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
761 * Improvements to wall video filter
762 * Support for font color and opacity
768 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
769 - Seeking support in VoD streams
770 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
774 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
775 - Improved preferences
776 - Improvements to the wizard
777 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
779 - Redesigned playlist
780 - Improved preferences
782 - Support for multiple actions
785 - Support for the new playlist system
787 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
790 * Screensaver disabling fix
791 * DirectShow tuner configuration
792 * Support for no-decoration windows
795 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
796 * The OpenGL video output is back
797 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
798 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
799 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
800 is not yet available in the new module
801 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
804 * Support for single-buffered overlay
813 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
816 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
819 The following languages were added:
825 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
826 --------------------------------
829 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
830 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
833 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
834 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
835 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
838 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
841 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
844 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
847 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
848 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
849 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
853 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
855 * Support of playlist group announcement
858 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
859 --------------------------------
862 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
863 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
864 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
865 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
866 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
867 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
870 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
871 (Stream your desktop)
872 * Improved DVD support:
873 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
874 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
875 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
876 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
877 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
878 (selection of titles/chapters).
881 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
882 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
883 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
884 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
885 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
886 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
887 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
888 * Improved Ogg demuxer
889 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
890 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
893 * G.726 audio support
894 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
895 * MPEG-4 text support
896 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
897 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
898 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
902 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
903 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
904 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
905 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
906 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
907 * DVB subtitles encoder
908 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
909 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
911 * Text track muxing for mp4
912 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
913 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
914 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
915 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
916 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
919 * H.263 RTP streaming support
920 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
921 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
924 * New audio equalizer filter
925 * Very trivial volume normalizer
926 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
927 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
928 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
931 * Roku HD1000 Video output
932 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
933 with support for effects.
934 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
935 - New filters can be streamed.
936 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
937 - Centralized scaling and blending
939 - "time", to display current time
940 - "marq", to display a marquee
943 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
944 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
945 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
946 * A few skins2 improvements
947 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
948 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
949 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
950 * Improved CORBA control module
953 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
954 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
955 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
958 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
959 * Experimental SVG rendering module
960 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
963 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
964 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
965 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
966 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
967 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
970 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
973 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
974 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
977 * Server/client network synchronization module
978 * VBrick streams fully supported
979 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
983 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
984 --------------------------------
987 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
988 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
989 * Improved HTTP daemon.
990 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
993 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
994 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
995 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
996 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
997 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
998 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
999 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1002 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1003 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1004 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1005 * Improved directory access module.
1006 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1007 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1008 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1009 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1010 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1013 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1014 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1015 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1018 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1019 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1020 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1023 * Improved session announcement system.
1024 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1025 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1026 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1027 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1028 * Improved transrater.
1029 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1030 * New configuration system.
1031 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1034 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1035 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1036 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1037 * Supports scheduling.
1038 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1039 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1042 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1043 - Ability to embed video output.
1044 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1045 - Lots of improvements.
1046 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1047 - New design and set of icons.
1048 - Ability to embed video output.
1049 - Support for hotkeys.
1050 - Support for bookmarks.
1052 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1053 - Better hotkeys handling.
1056 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1057 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1058 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1059 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1062 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1063 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1064 * Improved Windows installer.
1070 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1071 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1074 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1075 ---------------------------------
1078 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1079 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1082 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1083 --------------------------------
1086 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1087 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1090 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1091 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1092 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1093 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1096 * Internal improvments
1097 * Improved import/export
1100 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1102 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1103 small and strange formats.
1105 * New MOD audio demux.
1106 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1107 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1108 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1109 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1112 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1113 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1114 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1120 * New opengl video output plugin.
1123 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1124 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1127 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1128 --------------------------------
1131 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1132 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1133 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1134 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1135 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1136 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1137 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1138 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1141 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1146 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1147 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1148 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1149 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1150 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1151 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1152 * Better Icecast support.
1153 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1154 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1157 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1158 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1159 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1160 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1161 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1162 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1163 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1166 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1167 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1168 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1169 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1170 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1171 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1172 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1173 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1174 * Preliminary RTP support.
1175 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1180 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1181 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1183 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1184 - Improvements and help in preferences
1185 - New streaming wizard
1186 - Revised Disc Open menu
1188 - Improvements of the standard pages
1189 - Support for new commands
1190 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1193 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1194 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1197 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1198 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1199 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1200 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1201 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1202 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1203 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1204 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1205 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1208 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1210 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1211 * Support for Panther.
1212 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1213 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1216 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1217 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1218 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1219 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1220 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1221 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1222 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1223 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1226 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1227 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1228 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1231 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1234 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1235 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1236 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1237 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1240 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1241 --------------------------------
1244 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1247 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1248 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1251 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1252 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1255 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1258 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1259 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1262 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1265 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1268 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1269 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1273 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1274 --------------------------------
1277 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1278 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1282 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1283 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1284 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1286 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1287 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1290 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1293 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1296 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1297 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1301 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1306 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1310 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1311 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1312 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1313 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1314 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1317 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1318 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1319 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1322 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1323 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1324 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1327 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1328 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1329 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1330 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1331 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1334 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1335 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1336 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1339 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1342 * Improved build system.
1343 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1344 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1345 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1346 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1349 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1350 --------------------------------
1353 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1356 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1357 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1358 * Video 4 Linux support
1359 * CD Digital Audio support
1360 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1363 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1364 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1365 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1366 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1369 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1370 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1371 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1372 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1373 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1374 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1375 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1378 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1379 * New HTTP remote control interface
1382 * 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.
1383 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1384 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1385 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1388 * New reset option for the preferences
1389 * You can set your language in the prefences
1390 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1391 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1392 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1393 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1396 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1397 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1398 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1401 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1402 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1403 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1404 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1405 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1406 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1407 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1408 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1409 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1410 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1413 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1414 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1415 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1416 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1417 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1418 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1419 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1422 * Interface localization
1423 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1424 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1425 * New full-featured Preferences window
1428 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1429 --------------------------------
1432 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1433 * support for skins at the interface level
1434 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1435 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1436 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1437 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1438 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1441 * fixed HTTP redirects
1442 * support for opening an entire directory
1443 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1444 * new video4linux access plug-in
1445 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1448 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1449 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1450 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1453 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1454 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1455 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1456 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1457 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1458 * new codec for raw I420 video
1459 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1462 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1463 (although it still misses some important features)
1464 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1467 * new HTTP output support
1468 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1469 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1472 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1475 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1478 * reorderable playlist
1479 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1480 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1481 * support for mono audio output devices
1482 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1483 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1484 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1485 * the messages window remembers more lines
1486 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1487 * http and ogg stream output options
1488 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1491 * new skinnable interface
1492 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1494 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1495 * support for FLAC audio format
1496 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1498 * network tab in the interface
1499 * "apply" handling in preferences
1502 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1503 ---------------------------------
1506 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1507 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1508 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1509 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1511 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1512 * DTS S/PDIF support
1515 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1516 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1517 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1518 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1521 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1522 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1525 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1528 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1531 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1533 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1534 * rc interface is now fully useable
1535 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1538 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1539 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1540 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1541 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1542 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1544 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1545 * support for mouse gestures
1546 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1549 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1550 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1553 * improved ID3 tag detection
1554 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1555 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1556 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1558 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1561 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1562 ---------------------------------
1565 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1566 English was set as the preferred language
1569 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1570 --------------------------------
1573 * new mouse gesture interface
1574 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1578 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1579 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1580 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1583 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1584 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1588 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1591 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1592 without the user consent
1595 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1597 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1598 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1599 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1602 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1603 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1604 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1605 * playlist enhancements
1606 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1607 * new step forward/step backward commands
1608 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1609 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1610 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1613 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1614 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1615 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1618 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1619 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1622 * native video output is working again
1623 * only commandline interface support
1624 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1627 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1628 --------------------------------
1631 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1632 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1633 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1634 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1635 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1636 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1637 and A/52 streams are supported)
1638 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1643 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1644 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1645 * VCD entry points support
1646 * VCD image file support
1649 * support for *.asf format
1650 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1651 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1652 * support for ogg encapsulation
1653 * support for raw DV format
1654 * support for *.wav format
1655 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1658 Stream discovery & playlists:
1659 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1660 * support for .m3u file format
1661 * support for .asx file format
1662 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1665 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1666 (only available with the .avi demux)
1667 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1668 * support for raw PCM data
1669 * support for Cinepak video codec
1670 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1671 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1672 * support for Xvid codec
1673 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1674 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1675 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1677 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1679 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1682 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1685 * new WxWindows interface
1686 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1687 device and the channels configuration
1688 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1689 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1690 format that VLC can play
1691 * new swedish translation
1692 * enhancements of the playlist window
1693 * new messages window to see debug info
1694 * fixed a few crashes
1697 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1698 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1699 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1700 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working