1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
22 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
23 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
26 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
27 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
28 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
31 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
32 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
33 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
36 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
37 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
38 * Ogg seeking improvements
39 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
42 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
43 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
44 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
45 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
46 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
47 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
50 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
51 * New video output for iOS platform
52 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
53 * Various vmem improvements
56 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
57 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
58 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
59 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
60 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
63 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
66 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
69 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
70 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
71 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
72 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
73 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
74 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
75 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
76 * Major rework of VoD support
79 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
82 * New capabilities for libVLC:
83 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
84 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
85 list of available audio and video filters
88 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
89 ----------------------------------
92 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
96 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
99 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
102 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
103 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
104 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
105 * Taglib thread-safety fix
108 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
112 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
115 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
118 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
119 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
121 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
125 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
126 * Miscellaneous fixes
129 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
130 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
132 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
133 * New Asturian translation
136 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
137 ----------------------------------
140 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
142 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
145 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
148 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
149 * Various fixes for Windows
152 * New Armenian translation
153 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
154 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
157 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
158 --------------------------------
161 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
163 * Fix folders opening from the interface
166 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
167 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
170 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
171 --------------------------------
174 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
175 * fix for podcasts parsing
176 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
179 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
180 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
183 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
184 * fix m3u playlists exports
187 * fix video autoresize behaviour
190 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
193 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
196 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
199 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
202 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
203 --------------------------------
206 * Avformat fps displaying fix
207 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
210 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
211 of mono streams, especially on Windows
214 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
215 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
216 * fix console output encoding
218 Interface and extensions:
219 * Youtube and other scripts updates
220 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
223 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
224 --------------------------------
227 * New capabilities for libVLC:
228 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
229 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
230 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
231 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
232 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
233 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
234 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
235 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
236 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
237 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
238 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
239 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
240 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
241 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
242 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
246 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
247 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
248 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
249 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
250 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
253 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
256 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
257 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
258 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
262 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
265 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
266 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
267 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
270 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
271 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
272 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
273 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
276 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
277 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
280 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
281 --------------------------------
283 Important changes for users:
284 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
285 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
287 Important changes for packagers:
288 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
289 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
290 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
291 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
292 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
294 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
296 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
297 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
298 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
299 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
300 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
303 * Support for the sftp protocol
304 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
305 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
306 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
307 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
308 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
311 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
312 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
313 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
315 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
316 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
317 * Invmem module improvements
318 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
319 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
320 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
321 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
322 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
323 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
324 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
325 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
326 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
327 * Support for VP8 codec
328 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
331 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
332 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
333 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
334 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
335 * Various EGP improvements
336 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
337 * Metadata and cover art improvements
340 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
341 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
342 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
343 * Podcast images are now displayed
346 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
347 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
348 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
349 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
350 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
351 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
352 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
353 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
354 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
355 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
356 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
359 * New content extensions lua framework
362 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
363 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
364 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
365 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
366 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
367 * NEON assembly audio converter module
368 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
371 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
372 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
373 * Service discovery based on libudev
374 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
377 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
378 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
379 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
380 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
381 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
382 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
383 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
386 * New smem module, streaming to memory
387 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
388 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
391 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
393 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
394 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
397 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
400 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
401 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
402 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
403 by Andy Matuschak et al.
404 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
405 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
406 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
409 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
410 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
413 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
414 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
415 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
419 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
420 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
421 * Improved Solaris port
424 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
425 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
428 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
429 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
430 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
431 * transrate: broken since too long
432 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
433 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
434 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
435 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
436 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
437 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
438 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
439 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
440 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
441 * cddax: use cdda instead.
442 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
443 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
444 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
445 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
448 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
449 --------------------------------
452 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
454 Decoders/Packetizers:
455 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
458 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
459 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
460 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
461 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
462 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
465 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
466 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
469 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
470 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
473 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
474 and Walloon translations updated
475 * Sinhala translation started
478 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
479 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
482 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
483 --------------------------------
486 * SubRip extra styles improvements
487 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
490 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
493 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
494 increase performance and fix x264 issues
497 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
498 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
499 Russian, Slovak translation updates
500 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
503 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
504 --------------------------------
507 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
508 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
511 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
512 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
515 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
516 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
519 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
522 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
523 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
526 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
527 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
530 * New Walloon translation
531 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
534 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
535 --------------------------------
538 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
539 regressions in most popular drivers
540 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
543 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
544 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
545 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
548 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
549 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
552 * Update for appletrailers lua script
553 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
554 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
555 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
556 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
559 * New udev module for linux
562 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
565 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
568 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
569 --------------------------------
572 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
573 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
574 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
577 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
578 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
581 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
582 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
585 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
588 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
589 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
590 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
591 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
594 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
595 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
596 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
597 - no support for Goom and SDL
598 - limited text rendering support
599 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
602 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
603 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
604 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
605 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
606 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
607 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
608 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
609 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
610 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
614 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
617 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
620 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
621 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
622 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
623 Arabic and French translation updates
626 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
627 --------------------------------
630 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
631 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
632 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
633 * Fix Dailymotion access script
634 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
635 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
638 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
639 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
642 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
643 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
644 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
647 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
650 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
651 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
654 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
655 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
656 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
657 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
658 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
659 * Fix various crashes
662 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
664 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
667 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
668 ---------------------------------
672 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
673 See 'Access:' for more info.
674 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
677 * Instantaneous pausing
678 * Frame-by-Frame playback
679 * Finer speed control
680 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
681 * Timeshift for most medias
682 * RTSP trickplay support
683 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
686 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
687 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
688 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
689 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
690 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
691 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
692 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
693 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
694 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
695 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
698 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
699 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
700 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
701 * Metadata for mod files are supported
702 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
703 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
704 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
707 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
708 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
711 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
712 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
713 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
714 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
715 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
716 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
717 * DVB scanning on linux
718 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
719 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
720 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
721 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
722 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
723 * MTP device access on Unix
724 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
725 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
728 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
729 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
730 Windows and Mac OS X.
733 * Export the playlist in HTML
734 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
735 * Better metadata handling and reading
737 Linux/Windows interface:
738 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
739 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
740 * Recently played items list
741 * Interface toolbar customizations
742 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
745 - Improvements on many dialogs
746 - New dialog for plugins listing
747 - Fixed-size mode for videos
748 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
749 * Better integration in GTK environments
752 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
753 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
754 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
755 * Additional usability improvements
758 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
759 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
760 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
761 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
762 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
765 * New Maemo port with:
766 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
767 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
770 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
773 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
774 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
775 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
776 * Support for latest iSight models
779 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
780 * Surround support for PulseAudio
783 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
784 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
785 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
786 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
787 The old image video output has been removed.
788 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
789 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
792 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
800 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
801 --------------------------------------
807 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
808 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
809 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
810 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
811 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
812 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
813 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
815 Various fixes to the following modules:
818 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
819 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
822 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
827 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
828 ---------------------------------
831 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
832 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
835 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
836 ---------------------------------
839 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
842 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
845 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
846 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
847 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
848 main controller window.
849 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
852 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
857 * Updates of other localizations
860 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
861 * Lots of small bugfixes.
862 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
863 * Telnet fixes on Windows
864 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
867 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
868 ---------------------------------
871 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
873 Bunch of small bugfixes.
876 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
877 --------------------------------
882 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
883 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
886 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
887 --------------------------------
889 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
890 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
893 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
896 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
897 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
900 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
901 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
904 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
905 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
906 * Various fixed in playlist
909 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
912 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
915 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
916 ------------------------------------
918 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
919 * Fixes several memory leaks.
922 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
923 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
924 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
927 * Stability fix for the video output.
930 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
931 --------------------------------
934 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
935 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
936 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
937 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
938 * Fixed update system bugs
939 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
942 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
943 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
944 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
945 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
946 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
947 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
948 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
949 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
950 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
951 modern Mac OS X versions
954 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
955 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
957 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
958 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
961 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
962 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
963 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
964 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
965 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
966 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
969 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
970 --------------------------------
972 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
973 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
977 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
978 --------------------------------
980 * Multiple bug fixes.
983 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
984 ---------------------------------
988 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
989 recent to work correctly
990 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
991 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
992 edit the ".hosts" file.
993 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
994 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
995 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
996 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
997 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
998 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
999 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1000 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1001 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1002 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1003 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1004 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1005 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1006 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1007 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1008 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1009 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1010 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1011 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1012 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1013 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1014 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1015 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1016 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1017 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1018 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1019 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1020 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1021 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1022 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1023 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1024 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1025 and postproc modules.
1026 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1027 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1028 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1029 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1031 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1032 filter. For example:
1033 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1034 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1036 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1037 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1043 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1045 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1046 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1049 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1050 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1052 * Shoutcast TV listings
1053 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1055 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1056 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1058 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1061 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1062 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1063 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1064 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1065 * JACK audio input support
1066 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1067 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1068 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1069 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1070 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1071 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1072 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1073 (available as a separate download).
1074 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1075 * RTMP input support
1076 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1077 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1078 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1080 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1081 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1084 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1085 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1086 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1087 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1089 * APEv1/2 tags support
1090 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1091 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1093 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1094 * TiVo Series 2 support
1095 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1100 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1101 * Flash Screen Video support
1102 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1103 * DosBox Capture support
1104 * Karl Morton's Video support
1105 * limited atrac3 support
1107 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1108 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1109 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1110 * H.264 PAFF support
1111 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1112 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1113 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1114 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1115 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1118 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1119 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1120 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1121 * AQTitle subtitles support
1122 * MKV USF subtitles support
1123 * HTML-based subtitles support
1124 * MPSub subtitles support
1125 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1126 * MPL2 subtitles support
1127 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1128 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1129 * Realtext subtitle support
1130 * DKS subtitle support
1131 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1132 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1135 * Flash Screen Video support
1136 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1138 Video outputs and filters:
1139 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1140 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1141 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1142 * New puzzle video output filter
1143 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1144 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1146 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1147 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1148 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1149 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1150 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1151 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1152 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1153 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1154 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1155 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1156 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1157 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1158 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1159 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1161 Audio outputs and filters:
1162 * Replay gain support
1163 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1164 new scaletempo audio filter)
1165 * New spatializer audio filter
1166 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1169 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1170 * New RTP payload formats:
1171 * Speex voice audio codec
1172 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1173 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1174 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1175 * DCCP transport for RTP
1176 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1181 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1182 end-user suitable way.
1183 * Improved user interaction
1184 * Improved mouse gestures
1185 * Vastly improved Update checker
1186 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1188 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1189 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1191 * Improved video output features
1192 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1193 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1194 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1195 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1196 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1198 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1199 if libncursesw is available.
1200 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1201 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1202 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1204 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1205 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1206 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1207 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1208 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1209 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1210 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1211 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1214 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1215 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1216 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1219 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1220 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1221 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1222 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1223 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1224 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1227 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1228 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1238 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1239 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1240 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1243 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1244 ----------------------------------
1247 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1250 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1251 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1252 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1253 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1254 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1255 * Updated Polish translation
1258 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1259 ----------------------------------
1262 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1263 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1264 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1267 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1268 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1269 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1270 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1271 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1272 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1273 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1274 to an unexpected application termination
1275 * New Serbian translation
1276 * Updated Romanian translation
1279 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1280 ----------------------------------
1283 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1284 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1285 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1286 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1287 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1288 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1289 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1290 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1293 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1294 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1295 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1296 * Fixed AAC resampling
1297 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1298 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1301 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1302 ----------------------------------
1305 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1306 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1307 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1308 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1309 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1312 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1313 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1314 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1315 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1316 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1319 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1320 ----------------------------------
1323 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1324 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1327 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1328 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1329 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1330 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1332 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1336 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1339 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1342 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1345 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1348 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1349 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1350 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1351 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1352 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1354 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1355 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1356 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1357 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1360 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1363 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1364 ----------------------------------
1367 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1368 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1369 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1371 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1372 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1374 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1375 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1378 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1380 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1381 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1382 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1383 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1384 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1385 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1386 two different movies
1387 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1388 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1389 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1392 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1395 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1396 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1397 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1398 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1401 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1402 ----------------------------------
1404 Various bugfixes, notably:
1405 * Windows Vista compatibility
1406 * Cropping in Direct3D
1407 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1408 * RSS filter string overflow
1410 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1412 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1413 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1416 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1417 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1420 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1423 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1426 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1429 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1430 ----------------------------------
1432 Various bugfixes, notably:
1433 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1434 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1435 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1436 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1437 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1438 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1441 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1442 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1445 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1447 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1448 * Diverse usability improvements
1449 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1450 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1451 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1454 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1455 ---------------------------------
1457 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1458 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1461 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1464 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1465 --------------------------------
1468 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1471 * Support for RTSP authentication
1472 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1473 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1474 * ATSC support for DVB input
1475 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1476 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1477 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1480 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1481 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1482 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1483 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1484 * Matroska WavPack support
1485 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1486 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1487 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1490 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1491 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1492 * Improved libcaca support
1496 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1497 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1499 * Systray support in skins
1501 * Support for Apple Remote control
1502 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1503 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1504 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1505 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1507 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1510 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1511 Windows 9x/ME users:
1512 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1513 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1514 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1515 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1516 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1518 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1519 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1528 * Updates to the libvlc API
1529 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1532 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1533 --------------------------------
1536 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1537 * Support for downloading updates
1541 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1542 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1543 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1544 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1546 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1547 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1548 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1551 * Cook (Real audio) support
1553 Playlist / Services discovery:
1554 * XSPF playlist support
1556 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1559 * New JACK audio output
1562 * New video filters:
1563 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1564 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1565 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1566 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1567 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1568 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1571 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1574 * System to inform the user and request information
1575 - HTTP authentication
1579 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1580 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1581 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1584 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1585 - Improved playlist handling
1586 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1588 - Embedded Video output
1589 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1590 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1591 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1592 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1593 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1595 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1596 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1599 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1602 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1603 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1604 * Growl "Now playing" support
1607 * Ability to log to syslog
1608 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1611 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1613 * A bit more automatic testing
1616 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1617 ---------------------------------
1620 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1621 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1624 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1625 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1628 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1631 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1632 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1638 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1641 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1642 --------------------------------
1645 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1649 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1650 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1651 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1654 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1655 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1656 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1657 * GnomeVFS input module
1658 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1659 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1662 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1663 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1664 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1667 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1668 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1674 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1675 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1678 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1679 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1680 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1683 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1685 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1686 - New extended controls panel
1687 - New bookmarks window
1688 - Fixed playlist sorting
1689 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1691 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1692 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1693 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1694 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1698 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1699 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1701 - Include macro to include other files
1705 * Should now work outside IE as well
1708 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1711 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1712 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1715 The following languages were added:
1719 * Simplified Chinese
1720 The following languages were re-added:
1724 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1725 --------------------------------
1728 * Rewrite of the playlist
1730 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1731 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1732 * Preferences improvements:
1733 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1734 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1736 * Core image manipulation support
1737 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1738 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1739 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1740 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1741 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1742 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1743 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1744 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1745 * Access filter architecture
1746 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1747 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1751 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1752 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1753 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1754 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1755 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1756 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1757 * Massive Matroska improvements
1758 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1760 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1761 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1762 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1763 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1764 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1766 Decoders / Encoders:
1767 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1768 * PNG decoder/encoder
1769 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1770 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1773 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1776 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1777 * Brand new SAP module
1778 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1779 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1780 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1781 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1782 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1783 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1787 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1790 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1791 * Image file video output (png)
1792 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1793 * Improvements to wall video filter
1794 * Support for font color and opacity
1800 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1801 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1802 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1806 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1807 - Improved preferences
1808 - Improvements to the wizard
1809 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1811 - Redesigned playlist
1812 - Improved preferences
1814 - Support for multiple actions
1817 - Support for the new playlist system
1819 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1822 * Screensaver disabling fix
1823 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1824 * Support for no-decoration windows
1827 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1828 * The OpenGL video output is back
1829 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1830 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1831 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1832 is not yet available in the new module
1833 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1836 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1845 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1848 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1851 The following languages were added:
1857 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1858 --------------------------------
1861 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1862 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1865 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1866 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1867 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1870 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1873 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1876 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1879 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1880 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1881 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1885 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1887 * Support of playlist group announcement
1890 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1891 --------------------------------
1894 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1895 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1896 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1897 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1898 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1899 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1902 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1903 (Stream your desktop)
1904 * Improved DVD support:
1905 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1906 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1907 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1908 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1909 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1910 (selection of titles/chapters).
1913 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1914 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1915 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1916 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1917 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1918 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1919 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1920 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1921 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1922 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1925 * G.726 audio support
1926 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1927 * MPEG-4 text support
1928 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1929 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1930 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1934 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1935 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1936 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1937 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1938 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1939 * DVB subtitles encoder
1940 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1941 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1943 * Text track muxing for mp4
1944 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1945 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1946 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1947 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1948 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1949 * Improved ASF muxer
1951 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1952 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1953 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1956 * New audio equalizer filter
1957 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1958 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1959 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1960 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1963 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1964 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1965 with support for effects.
1966 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1967 - New filters can be streamed.
1968 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1969 - Centralized scaling and blending
1971 - "time", to display current time
1972 - "marq", to display a marquee
1975 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1976 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1977 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1978 * A few skins2 improvements
1979 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1980 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1981 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1982 * Improved CORBA control module
1985 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1986 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1987 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1990 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1991 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1992 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1995 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1996 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1997 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1998 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1999 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2002 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2005 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2006 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2009 * Server/client network synchronization module
2010 * VBrick streams fully supported
2011 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2015 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2016 --------------------------------
2019 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2020 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2021 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2022 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2025 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2026 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2027 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2028 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2029 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2030 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2031 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2034 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2035 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2036 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2037 * Improved directory access module.
2038 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2039 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2040 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2041 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2042 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2045 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2046 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2047 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2050 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2051 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2052 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2055 * Improved session announcement system.
2056 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2057 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2058 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2059 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2060 * Improved transrater.
2061 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2062 * New configuration system.
2063 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2066 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2067 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2068 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2069 * Supports scheduling.
2070 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2071 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2074 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2075 - Ability to embed video output.
2076 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2077 - Lots of improvements.
2078 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2079 - New design and set of icons.
2080 - Ability to embed video output.
2081 - Support for hotkeys.
2082 - Support for bookmarks.
2084 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2085 - Better hotkeys handling.
2088 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2089 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2090 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2091 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2094 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2095 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2096 * Improved Windows installer.
2102 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2103 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2106 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2107 ---------------------------------
2110 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2111 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2114 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2115 --------------------------------
2118 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2119 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2122 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2123 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2124 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2125 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2128 * Internal improvments
2129 * Improved import/export
2132 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2134 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2135 small and strange formats.
2137 * New MOD audio demux.
2138 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2139 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2140 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2141 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2144 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2145 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2146 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2152 * New opengl video output plugin.
2155 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2156 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2159 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2164 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2165 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2166 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2167 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2168 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2169 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2170 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2173 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2178 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2179 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2180 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2181 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2182 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2183 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2184 * Better Icecast support.
2185 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2186 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2189 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2190 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2191 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2192 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2193 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2194 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2195 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2198 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2199 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2200 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2201 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2202 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2203 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2204 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2205 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2206 * Preliminary RTP support.
2207 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2212 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2213 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2215 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2216 - Improvements and help in preferences
2217 - New streaming wizard
2218 - Revised Disc Open menu
2220 - Improvements of the standard pages
2221 - Support for new commands
2222 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2225 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2226 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2229 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2230 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2231 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2232 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2233 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2234 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2235 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2236 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2237 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2240 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2242 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2243 * Support for Panther.
2244 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2245 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2248 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2249 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2250 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2251 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2252 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2253 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2254 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2255 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2258 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2259 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2260 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2263 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2266 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2267 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2268 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2269 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2272 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2273 --------------------------------
2276 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2279 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2280 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2283 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2284 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2287 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2290 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2291 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2294 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2297 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2300 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2301 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2305 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2306 --------------------------------
2309 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2310 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2314 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2315 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2316 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2318 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2319 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2322 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2325 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2328 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2329 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2333 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2334 --------------------------------
2337 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2338 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2342 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2343 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2344 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2345 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2346 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2349 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2350 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2351 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2354 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2355 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2356 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2359 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2360 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2361 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2362 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2363 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2366 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2367 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2368 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2371 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2374 * Improved build system.
2375 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2376 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2377 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2378 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2381 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2382 --------------------------------
2385 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2388 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2389 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2390 * Video 4 Linux support
2391 * CD Digital Audio support
2392 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2395 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2396 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2397 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2398 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2401 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2402 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2403 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2404 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2405 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2406 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2407 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2410 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2411 * New HTTP remote control interface
2414 * 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.
2415 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2416 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2417 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2420 * New reset option for the preferences
2421 * You can set your language in the prefences
2422 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2423 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2424 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2425 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2428 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2429 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2430 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2433 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2434 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2435 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2436 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2437 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2438 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2439 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2440 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2441 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2442 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2445 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2446 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2447 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2448 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2449 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2450 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2451 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2454 * Interface localization
2455 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2456 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2457 * New full-featured Preferences window
2460 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2461 --------------------------------
2464 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2465 * support for skins at the interface level
2466 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2467 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2468 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2469 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2470 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2473 * fixed HTTP redirects
2474 * support for opening an entire directory
2475 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2476 * new video4linux access plug-in
2477 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2480 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2481 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2482 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2485 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2486 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2487 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2488 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2489 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2490 * new codec for raw I420 video
2491 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2494 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2495 (although it still misses some important features)
2496 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2499 * new HTTP output support
2500 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2501 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2504 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2507 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2510 * reorderable playlist
2511 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2512 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2513 * support for mono audio output devices
2514 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2515 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2516 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2517 * the messages window remembers more lines
2518 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2519 * http and ogg stream output options
2520 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2523 * new skinnable interface
2524 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2526 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2527 * support for FLAC audio format
2528 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2530 * network tab in the interface
2531 * "apply" handling in preferences
2534 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2535 ---------------------------------
2538 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2539 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2540 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2541 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2543 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2544 * DTS S/PDIF support
2547 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2548 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2549 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2550 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2553 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2554 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2557 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2560 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2563 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2565 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2566 * rc interface is now fully useable
2567 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2570 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2571 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2572 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2573 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2574 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2576 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2577 * support for mouse gestures
2578 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2581 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2582 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2585 * improved ID3 tag detection
2586 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2587 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2588 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2590 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2593 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2594 ---------------------------------
2597 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2598 English was set as the preferred language
2601 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2602 --------------------------------
2605 * new mouse gesture interface
2606 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2610 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2611 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2612 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2615 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2616 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2620 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2623 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2624 without the user consent
2627 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2629 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2630 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2631 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2634 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2635 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2636 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2637 * playlist enhancements
2638 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2639 * new step forward/step backward commands
2640 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2641 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2642 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2645 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2646 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2647 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2650 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2651 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2654 * native video output is working again
2655 * only commandline interface support
2656 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2659 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2660 --------------------------------
2663 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2664 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2665 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2666 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2667 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2668 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2669 and A/52 streams are supported)
2670 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2675 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2676 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2677 * VCD entry points support
2678 * VCD image file support
2681 * support for *.asf format
2682 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2683 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2684 * support for ogg encapsulation
2685 * support for raw DV format
2686 * support for *.wav format
2687 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2690 Stream discovery & playlists:
2691 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2692 * support for .m3u file format
2693 * support for .asx file format
2694 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2697 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2698 (only available with the .avi demux)
2699 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2700 * support for raw PCM data
2701 * support for Cinepak video codec
2702 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2703 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2704 * support for Xvid codec
2705 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2706 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2707 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2709 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2711 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2714 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2717 * new WxWindows interface
2718 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2719 device and the channels configuration
2720 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2721 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2722 format that VLC can play
2723 * new swedish translation
2724 * enhancements of the playlist window
2725 * new messages window to see debug info
2726 * fixed a few crashes
2729 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2730 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2731 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2732 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working