1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre2:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
25 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
26 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
27 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
28 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
30 Important changes for packagers:
31 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
32 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
33 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
34 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
35 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
36 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
37 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
38 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
39 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
41 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
44 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
45 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
46 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
47 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
48 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
49 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
50 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
53 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
54 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
55 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
56 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
57 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
58 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
59 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
60 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
61 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
62 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
63 * PulseAudio audio input support
64 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
65 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
66 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
67 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
68 * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
69 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
70 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
73 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
74 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
75 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
76 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
77 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
78 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
79 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
80 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
81 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
82 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
83 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
84 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
85 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
86 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
87 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
90 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
91 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
92 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
93 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
94 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
95 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
96 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
97 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
98 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
99 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
100 * Improved support of tracker files
103 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
104 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
105 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
106 * Qt: small look improvements
107 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
108 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
109 and important cleanups and optimisations
110 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
111 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
112 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
113 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
114 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
115 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
116 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
117 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
118 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
119 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
120 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
121 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
122 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
123 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
124 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
125 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
128 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
129 * New video output for iOS platform
130 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
131 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
132 * Various vmem improvements
133 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
135 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
136 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
137 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
139 Audio Output and Filters:
140 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
141 * New audio output in memory (amem)
142 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
143 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
144 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
145 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
146 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
147 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
148 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
149 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
152 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
153 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
154 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
155 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
156 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
157 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
158 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
159 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
160 * New anti-flickering filter
161 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
162 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
163 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
164 blackbox and customizable shadow.
165 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
166 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
167 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
170 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
171 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
172 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
173 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
174 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
175 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
176 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
177 * Major rework of VoD support
178 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
179 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
180 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
181 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
182 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
183 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
184 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
185 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
186 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
187 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
190 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
191 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
194 * New capabilities for libVLC:
195 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
196 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
197 list of available audio and video filters
198 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
199 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
200 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
203 * asademux: use libass only
204 * subsass: use libass
205 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
206 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
208 * upnp: use upnp_intel
209 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
210 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
211 * removal of the noise filter
212 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
213 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
214 removed in Growl's next release, too.
215 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
218 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
219 ----------------------------------
222 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
223 including support for OS X Lion
224 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
225 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
228 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
231 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
232 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
233 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
236 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
239 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
240 ----------------------------------
243 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
244 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
247 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
248 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
249 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
250 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
251 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
253 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
254 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
255 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
257 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
258 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
261 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
264 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
267 * Fix quitting on Linux
268 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
272 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
275 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
278 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
279 ---------------------------------
281 Windows and Mac OS X:
282 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
285 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
286 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
289 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
292 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
295 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
297 Miscellaneous fixes in:
298 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
300 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
301 * RTP output and XML export
302 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
306 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
307 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
308 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
309 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
312 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
313 --------------------------------
315 Windows and Mac OS X:
316 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
319 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
322 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
323 * Improve Apple Remote handling
324 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
325 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
326 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
327 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
330 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
331 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
335 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
336 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
337 * New Luganda Translation
340 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
341 --------------------------------
344 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
347 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
348 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
349 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
350 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
353 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
355 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
356 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
357 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
358 * mp4 demuxer improvements
359 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
360 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
361 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
362 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
364 Miscellaneous fixes in:
365 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
366 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
367 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
368 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
369 * Configure and build system improvements
370 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
373 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
374 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
375 * New icelandic translation
378 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
379 --------------------------------
382 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
386 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
387 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
388 and stability reasons
391 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
395 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
398 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
399 ----------------------------------
402 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
405 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
406 ---------------------------------
409 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
410 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
411 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
412 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
415 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
418 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
419 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
420 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
421 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
424 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
425 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
426 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
428 Subtitles and renderer:
429 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
430 * Mark more freetype options as safe
431 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
432 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
433 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
436 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
437 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
438 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
439 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
442 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
443 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
446 * KDE device solid actions
448 * Transcode integer overflow
449 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
450 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
453 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
454 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
455 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
458 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
459 ----------------------------------
462 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
466 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
469 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
472 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
473 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
474 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
475 * Taglib thread-safety fix
478 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
482 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
485 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
488 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
489 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
491 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
495 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
496 * Miscellaneous fixes
499 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
500 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
502 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
503 * New Asturian translation
506 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
507 ----------------------------------
510 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
512 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
515 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
518 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
519 * Various fixes for Windows
522 * New Armenian translation
523 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
524 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
527 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
528 --------------------------------
531 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
533 * Fix folders opening from the interface
536 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
537 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
540 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
541 --------------------------------
544 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
545 * fix for podcasts parsing
546 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
549 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
550 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
553 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
554 * fix m3u playlists exports
557 * fix video autoresize behaviour
560 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
563 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
566 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
569 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
572 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
573 --------------------------------
576 * Avformat fps displaying fix
577 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
580 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
581 of mono streams, especially on Windows
584 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
585 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
586 * fix console output encoding
588 Interface and extensions:
589 * Youtube and other scripts updates
590 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
593 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
594 --------------------------------
597 * New capabilities for libVLC:
598 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
599 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
600 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
601 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
602 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
603 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
604 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
605 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
606 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
607 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
608 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
609 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
610 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
611 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
612 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
616 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
617 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
618 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
619 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
620 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
623 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
626 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
627 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
628 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
632 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
635 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
636 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
637 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
640 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
641 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
642 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
643 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
646 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
647 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
650 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
651 --------------------------------
653 Important changes for users:
654 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
655 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
657 Important changes for packagers:
658 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
659 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
660 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
661 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
662 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
664 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
666 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
667 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
668 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
669 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
670 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
673 * Support for the sftp protocol
674 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
675 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
676 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
677 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
678 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
681 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
682 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
683 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
685 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
686 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
687 * Invmem module improvements
688 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
689 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
690 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
691 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
692 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
693 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
694 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
695 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
696 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
697 * Support for VP8 codec
698 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
701 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
702 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
703 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
704 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
705 * Various EGP improvements
706 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
707 * Metadata and cover art improvements
710 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
711 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
712 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
713 * Podcast images are now displayed
716 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
717 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
718 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
719 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
720 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
721 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
722 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
723 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
724 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
725 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
726 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
729 * New content extensions lua framework
732 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
733 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
734 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
735 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
736 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
737 * NEON assembly audio converter module
738 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
741 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
742 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
743 * Service discovery based on libudev
744 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
747 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
748 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
749 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
750 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
751 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
752 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
753 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
756 * New smem module, streaming to memory
757 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
758 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
761 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
763 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
764 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
767 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
770 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
771 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
772 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
773 by Andy Matuschak et al.
774 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
775 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
776 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
779 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
780 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
783 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
784 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
785 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
789 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
790 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
791 * Improved Solaris port
794 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
795 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
798 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
799 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
800 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
801 * transrate: broken since too long
802 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
803 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
804 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
805 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
806 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
807 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
808 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
809 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
810 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
811 * cddax: use cdda instead.
812 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
813 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
814 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
815 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
818 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
819 --------------------------------
822 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
824 Decoders/Packetizers:
825 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
828 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
829 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
830 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
831 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
832 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
835 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
836 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
839 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
840 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
843 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
844 and Walloon translations updated
845 * Sinhala translation started
848 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
849 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
852 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
853 --------------------------------
856 * SubRip extra styles improvements
857 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
860 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
863 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
864 increase performance and fix x264 issues
867 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
868 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
869 Russian, Slovak translation updates
870 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
873 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
874 --------------------------------
877 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
878 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
881 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
882 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
885 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
886 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
889 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
892 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
893 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
896 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
897 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
900 * New Walloon translation
901 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
904 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
905 --------------------------------
908 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
909 regressions in most popular drivers
910 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
913 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
914 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
915 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
918 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
919 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
922 * Update for appletrailers lua script
923 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
924 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
925 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
926 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
929 * New udev module for linux
932 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
935 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
938 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
939 --------------------------------
942 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
943 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
944 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
947 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
948 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
951 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
952 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
955 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
958 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
959 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
960 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
961 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
964 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
965 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
966 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
967 - no support for Goom and SDL
968 - limited text rendering support
969 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
972 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
973 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
974 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
975 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
976 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
977 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
978 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
979 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
980 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
984 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
987 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
990 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
991 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
992 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
993 Arabic and French translation updates
996 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
997 --------------------------------
1000 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1001 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1002 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1003 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1004 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1005 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1008 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1009 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1010 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1013 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1014 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1015 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1018 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1021 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1022 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1025 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1026 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1027 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1028 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1029 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1030 * Fix various crashes
1033 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1035 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1039 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1040 ---------------------------------
1044 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1045 See 'Access:' for more info.
1046 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1049 * Instantaneous pausing
1050 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1051 * Finer speed control
1052 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1053 * Timeshift for most medias
1054 * RTSP trickplay support
1055 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1058 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1059 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1060 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1061 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1062 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1063 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1064 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1065 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1066 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1067 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1070 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1071 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1072 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1073 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1074 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1075 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1076 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1079 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1080 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1083 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1084 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1085 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1086 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1087 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1088 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1089 * DVB scanning on linux
1090 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1091 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1092 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1093 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1094 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1095 * MTP device access on Unix
1096 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1097 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1100 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1101 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1102 Windows and Mac OS X.
1105 * Export the playlist in HTML
1106 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1107 * Better metadata handling and reading
1109 Linux/Windows interface:
1110 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1111 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1112 * Recently played items list
1113 * Interface toolbar customizations
1114 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1115 - More menus actions
1116 - Finer speed slider
1117 - Improvements on many dialogs
1118 - New dialog for plugins listing
1119 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1120 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1121 * Better integration in GTK environments
1124 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1125 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1126 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1127 * Additional usability improvements
1130 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1131 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1132 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1133 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1134 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1137 * New Maemo port with:
1138 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1139 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1142 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1145 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1146 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1147 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1148 * Support for latest iSight models
1151 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1152 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1155 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1156 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1157 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1158 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1159 The old image video output has been removed.
1160 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1161 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1164 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1172 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1173 --------------------------------------
1179 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1180 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1181 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1182 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1183 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1184 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1185 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1187 Various fixes to the following modules:
1190 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1191 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1192 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1194 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1199 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1200 ---------------------------------
1203 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1204 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1207 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1208 ---------------------------------
1211 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1214 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1217 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1218 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1219 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1220 main controller window.
1221 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1224 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1229 * Updates of other localizations
1232 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1233 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1234 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1235 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1236 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1239 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1240 ---------------------------------
1243 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1245 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1248 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1249 --------------------------------
1254 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1255 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1258 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1259 --------------------------------
1261 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1262 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1265 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1268 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1269 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1272 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1273 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1276 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1277 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1278 * Various fixed in playlist
1281 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1284 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1287 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1288 ------------------------------------
1290 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1291 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1294 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1295 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1296 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1299 * Stability fix for the video output.
1302 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1307 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1308 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1309 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1310 * Fixed update system bugs
1311 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1314 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1315 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1316 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1317 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1318 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1319 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1320 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1321 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1322 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1323 modern Mac OS X versions
1326 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1327 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1329 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1330 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1333 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1334 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1335 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1336 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1337 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1338 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1341 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1342 --------------------------------
1344 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1345 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1346 * Multiple bugfixes.
1349 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1350 --------------------------------
1352 * Multiple bug fixes.
1355 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1356 ---------------------------------
1360 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1361 recent to work correctly
1362 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1363 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1364 edit the ".hosts" file.
1365 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1366 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1367 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1368 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1369 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1370 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1371 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1372 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1373 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1374 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1375 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1376 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1377 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1378 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1379 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1380 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1381 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1382 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1383 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1384 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1385 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1386 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1387 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1388 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1389 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1390 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1391 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1392 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1393 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1394 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1395 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1396 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1397 and postproc modules.
1398 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1399 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1400 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1401 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1403 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1404 filter. For example:
1405 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1406 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1408 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1409 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1415 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1417 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1418 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1421 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1422 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1424 * Shoutcast TV listings
1425 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1427 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1428 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1430 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1433 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1434 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1435 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1436 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1437 * JACK audio input support
1438 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1439 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1440 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1441 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1442 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1443 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1444 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1445 (available as a separate download).
1446 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1447 * RTMP input support
1448 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1449 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1450 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1452 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1453 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1456 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1457 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1458 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1459 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1461 * APEv1/2 tags support
1462 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1463 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1465 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1466 * TiVo Series 2 support
1467 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1472 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1473 * Flash Screen Video support
1474 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1475 * DosBox Capture support
1476 * Karl Morton's Video support
1477 * limited atrac3 support
1479 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1480 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1481 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1482 * H.264 PAFF support
1483 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1484 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1485 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1486 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1487 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1490 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1491 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1492 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1493 * AQTitle subtitles support
1494 * MKV USF subtitles support
1495 * HTML-based subtitles support
1496 * MPSub subtitles support
1497 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1498 * MPL2 subtitles support
1499 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1500 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1501 * Realtext subtitle support
1502 * DKS subtitle support
1503 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1504 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1507 * Flash Screen Video support
1508 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1510 Video outputs and filters:
1511 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1512 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1513 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1514 * New puzzle video output filter
1515 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1516 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1518 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1519 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1520 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1521 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1522 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1523 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1524 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1525 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1526 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1527 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1528 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1529 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1530 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1531 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1533 Audio outputs and filters:
1534 * Replay gain support
1535 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1536 new scaletempo audio filter)
1537 * New spatializer audio filter
1538 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1541 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1542 * New RTP payload formats:
1543 * Speex voice audio codec
1544 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1545 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1546 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1547 * DCCP transport for RTP
1548 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1553 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1554 end-user suitable way.
1555 * Improved user interaction
1556 * Improved mouse gestures
1557 * Vastly improved Update checker
1558 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1560 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1561 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1563 * Improved video output features
1564 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1565 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1566 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1567 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1568 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1570 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1571 if libncursesw is available.
1572 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1573 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1574 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1576 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1577 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1578 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1579 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1580 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1581 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1582 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1583 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1586 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1587 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1588 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1591 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1592 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1593 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1594 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1595 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1596 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1599 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1600 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1610 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1611 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1612 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1615 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1616 ----------------------------------
1619 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1622 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1623 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1624 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1625 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1626 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1627 * Updated Polish translation
1630 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1631 ----------------------------------
1634 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1635 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1636 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1639 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1640 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1641 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1642 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1643 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1644 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1645 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1646 to an unexpected application termination
1647 * New Serbian translation
1648 * Updated Romanian translation
1651 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1652 ----------------------------------
1655 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1656 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1657 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1658 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1659 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1660 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1661 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1662 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1665 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1666 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1667 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1668 * Fixed AAC resampling
1669 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1670 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1673 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1674 ----------------------------------
1677 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1678 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1679 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1680 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1681 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1684 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1685 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1686 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1687 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1688 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1691 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1692 ----------------------------------
1695 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1696 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1699 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1700 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1701 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1702 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1704 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1708 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1711 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1714 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1717 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1720 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1721 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1722 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1723 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1724 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1726 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1727 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1728 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1729 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1732 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1735 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1736 ----------------------------------
1739 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1740 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1741 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1743 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1744 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1746 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1747 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1750 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1752 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1753 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1754 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1755 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1756 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1757 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1758 two different movies
1759 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1760 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1761 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1764 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1767 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1768 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1769 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1770 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1773 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1774 ----------------------------------
1776 Various bugfixes, notably:
1777 * Windows Vista compatibility
1778 * Cropping in Direct3D
1779 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1780 * RSS filter string overflow
1782 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1784 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1785 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1788 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1789 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1792 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1795 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1798 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1801 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1802 ----------------------------------
1804 Various bugfixes, notably:
1805 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1806 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1807 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1808 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1809 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1810 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1813 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1814 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1817 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1819 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1820 * Diverse usability improvements
1821 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1822 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1823 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1826 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1827 ---------------------------------
1829 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1830 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1833 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1836 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1837 --------------------------------
1840 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1843 * Support for RTSP authentication
1844 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1845 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1846 * ATSC support for DVB input
1847 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1848 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1849 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1852 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1853 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1854 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1855 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1856 * Matroska WavPack support
1857 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1858 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1859 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1862 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1863 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1864 * Improved libcaca support
1868 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1869 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1871 * Systray support in skins
1873 * Support for Apple Remote control
1874 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1875 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1876 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1877 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1879 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1882 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1883 Windows 9x/ME users:
1884 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1885 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1886 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1887 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1888 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1890 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1891 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1900 * Updates to the libvlc API
1901 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1904 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1905 --------------------------------
1908 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1909 * Support for downloading updates
1913 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1914 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1915 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1916 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1918 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1919 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1920 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1923 * Cook (Real audio) support
1925 Playlist / Services discovery:
1926 * XSPF playlist support
1928 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1931 * New JACK audio output
1934 * New video filters:
1935 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1936 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1937 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1938 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1939 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1940 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1943 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1946 * System to inform the user and request information
1947 - HTTP authentication
1951 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1952 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1953 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1956 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1957 - Improved playlist handling
1958 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1960 - Embedded Video output
1961 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1962 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1963 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1964 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1965 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1967 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1968 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1971 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1974 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1975 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1976 * Growl "Now playing" support
1979 * Ability to log to syslog
1980 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1983 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1985 * A bit more automatic testing
1988 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1989 ---------------------------------
1992 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1993 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1996 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1997 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2000 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2003 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2004 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2010 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2013 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2021 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2022 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2023 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2026 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2027 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2028 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2029 * GnomeVFS input module
2030 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2031 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2034 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2035 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2036 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2039 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2040 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2046 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2047 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2050 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2051 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2052 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2055 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2057 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2058 - New extended controls panel
2059 - New bookmarks window
2060 - Fixed playlist sorting
2061 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2063 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2064 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2065 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2066 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2070 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2071 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2073 - Include macro to include other files
2077 * Should now work outside IE as well
2080 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2083 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2084 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2087 The following languages were added:
2091 * Simplified Chinese
2092 The following languages were re-added:
2096 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2097 --------------------------------
2100 * Rewrite of the playlist
2102 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2103 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2104 * Preferences improvements:
2105 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2106 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2108 * Core image manipulation support
2109 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2110 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2111 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2112 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2113 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2114 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2115 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2116 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2117 * Access filter architecture
2118 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2119 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2123 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2124 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2125 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2126 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2127 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2128 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2129 * Massive Matroska improvements
2130 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2132 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2133 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2134 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2135 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2136 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2138 Decoders / Encoders:
2139 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2140 * PNG decoder/encoder
2141 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2142 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2145 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2148 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2149 * Brand new SAP module
2150 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2151 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2152 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2153 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2154 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2155 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2159 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2162 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2163 * Image file video output (png)
2164 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2165 * Improvements to wall video filter
2166 * Support for font color and opacity
2172 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2173 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2174 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2178 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2179 - Improved preferences
2180 - Improvements to the wizard
2181 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2183 - Redesigned playlist
2184 - Improved preferences
2186 - Support for multiple actions
2189 - Support for the new playlist system
2191 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2194 * Screensaver disabling fix
2195 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2196 * Support for no-decoration windows
2199 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2200 * The OpenGL video output is back
2201 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2202 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2203 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2204 is not yet available in the new module
2205 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2208 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2217 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2220 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2223 The following languages were added:
2229 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2230 --------------------------------
2233 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2234 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2237 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2238 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2239 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2242 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2245 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2248 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2251 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2252 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2253 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2257 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2259 * Support of playlist group announcement
2262 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2263 --------------------------------
2266 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2267 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2268 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2269 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2270 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2271 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2274 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2275 (Stream your desktop)
2276 * Improved DVD support:
2277 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2278 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2279 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2280 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2281 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2282 (selection of titles/chapters).
2285 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2286 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2287 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2288 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2289 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2290 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2291 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2292 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2293 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2294 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2297 * G.726 audio support
2298 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2299 * MPEG-4 text support
2300 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2301 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2302 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2306 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2307 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2308 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2309 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2310 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2311 * DVB subtitles encoder
2312 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2313 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2315 * Text track muxing for mp4
2316 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2317 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2318 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2319 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2320 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2321 * Improved ASF muxer
2323 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2324 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2325 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2328 * New audio equalizer filter
2329 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2330 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2331 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2332 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2335 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2336 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2337 with support for effects.
2338 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2339 - New filters can be streamed.
2340 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2341 - Centralized scaling and blending
2343 - "time", to display current time
2344 - "marq", to display a marquee
2347 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2348 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2349 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2350 * A few skins2 improvements
2351 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2352 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2353 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2354 * Improved CORBA control module
2357 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2358 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2359 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2362 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2363 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2364 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2367 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2368 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2369 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2370 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2371 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2374 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2377 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2378 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2381 * Server/client network synchronization module
2382 * VBrick streams fully supported
2383 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2387 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2388 --------------------------------
2391 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2392 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2393 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2394 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2397 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2398 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2399 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2400 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2401 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2402 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2403 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2406 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2407 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2408 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2409 * Improved directory access module.
2410 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2411 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2412 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2413 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2414 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2417 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2418 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2419 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2422 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2423 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2424 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2427 * Improved session announcement system.
2428 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2429 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2430 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2431 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2432 * Improved transrater.
2433 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2434 * New configuration system.
2435 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2438 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2439 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2440 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2441 * Supports scheduling.
2442 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2443 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2446 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2447 - Ability to embed video output.
2448 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2449 - Lots of improvements.
2450 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2451 - New design and set of icons.
2452 - Ability to embed video output.
2453 - Support for hotkeys.
2454 - Support for bookmarks.
2456 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2457 - Better hotkeys handling.
2460 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2461 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2462 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2463 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2466 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2467 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2468 * Improved Windows installer.
2474 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2475 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2478 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2479 ---------------------------------
2482 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2483 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2486 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2487 --------------------------------
2490 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2491 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2494 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2495 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2496 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2497 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2500 * Internal improvments
2501 * Improved import/export
2504 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2506 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2507 small and strange formats.
2509 * New MOD audio demux.
2510 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2511 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2512 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2513 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2516 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2517 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2518 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2524 * New opengl video output plugin.
2527 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2528 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2531 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2532 --------------------------------
2535 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2536 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2537 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2538 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2539 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2540 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2541 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2542 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2545 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2550 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2551 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2552 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2553 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2554 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2555 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2556 * Better Icecast support.
2557 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2558 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2561 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2562 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2563 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2564 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2565 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2566 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2567 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2570 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2571 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2572 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2573 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2574 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2575 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2576 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2577 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2578 * Preliminary RTP support.
2579 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2584 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2585 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2587 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2588 - Improvements and help in preferences
2589 - New streaming wizard
2590 - Revised Disc Open menu
2592 - Improvements of the standard pages
2593 - Support for new commands
2594 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2597 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2598 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2601 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2602 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2603 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2604 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2605 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2606 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2607 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2608 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2609 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2612 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2614 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2615 * Support for Panther.
2616 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2617 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2620 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2621 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2622 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2623 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2624 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2625 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2626 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2627 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2630 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2631 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2632 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2635 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2638 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2639 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2640 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2641 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2644 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2645 --------------------------------
2648 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2651 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2652 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2655 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2656 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2659 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2662 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2663 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2666 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2669 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2672 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2673 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2677 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2678 --------------------------------
2681 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2682 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2686 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2687 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2688 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2690 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2691 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2694 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2697 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2700 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2701 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2705 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2706 --------------------------------
2709 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2710 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2714 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2715 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2716 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2717 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2718 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2721 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2722 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2723 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2726 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2727 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2728 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2731 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2732 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2733 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2734 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2735 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2738 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2739 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2740 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2743 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2746 * Improved build system.
2747 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2748 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2749 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2750 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2753 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2754 --------------------------------
2757 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2760 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2761 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2762 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2763 * Video 4 Linux support
2764 * CD Digital Audio support
2765 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2768 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2769 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2770 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2771 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2774 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2775 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2776 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2777 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2778 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2779 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2780 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2783 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2784 * New HTTP remote control interface
2787 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2788 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2789 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2790 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2791 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2794 * New reset option for the preferences
2795 * You can set your language in the prefences
2796 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2797 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2798 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2799 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2802 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2803 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2804 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2807 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2808 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2809 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2810 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2811 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2812 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2813 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2814 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2815 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2816 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2819 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2820 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2821 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2822 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2823 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2824 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2825 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2828 * Interface localization
2829 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2830 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2831 * New full-featured Preferences window
2834 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2835 --------------------------------
2838 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2839 * support for skins at the interface level
2840 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2841 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2842 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2843 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2844 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2847 * fixed HTTP redirects
2848 * support for opening an entire directory
2849 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2850 * new video4linux access plug-in
2851 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2854 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2855 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2856 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2859 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2860 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2861 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2862 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2863 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2864 * new codec for raw I420 video
2865 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2868 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2869 (although it still misses some important features)
2870 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2873 * new HTTP output support
2874 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2875 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2878 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2881 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2884 * reorderable playlist
2885 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2886 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2887 * support for mono audio output devices
2888 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2889 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2890 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2891 * the messages window remembers more lines
2892 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2893 * http and ogg stream output options
2894 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2897 * new skinnable interface
2898 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2900 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2901 * support for FLAC audio format
2902 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2904 * network tab in the interface
2905 * "apply" handling in preferences
2908 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2909 ---------------------------------
2912 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2913 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2914 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2915 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2917 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2918 * DTS S/PDIF support
2921 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2922 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2923 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2924 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2927 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2928 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2931 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2934 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2937 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2939 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2940 * rc interface is now fully useable
2941 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2944 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2945 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2946 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2947 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2948 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2950 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2951 * support for mouse gestures
2952 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2955 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2956 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2959 * improved ID3 tag detection
2960 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2961 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2962 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2964 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2967 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2968 ---------------------------------
2971 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2972 English was set as the preferred language
2975 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2976 --------------------------------
2979 * new mouse gesture interface
2980 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2984 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2985 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2986 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2989 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2990 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2994 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2997 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2998 without the user consent
3001 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3003 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3004 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3005 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3008 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3009 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3010 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3011 * playlist enhancements
3012 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3013 * new step forward/step backward commands
3014 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3015 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3016 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3019 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3020 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3021 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3024 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3025 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3028 * native video output is working again
3029 * only commandline interface support
3030 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3033 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3034 --------------------------------
3037 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3038 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3039 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3040 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3041 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3042 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3043 and A/52 streams are supported)
3044 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3049 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3050 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3051 * VCD entry points support
3052 * VCD image file support
3055 * support for *.asf format
3056 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3057 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3058 * support for ogg encapsulation
3059 * support for raw DV format
3060 * support for *.wav format
3061 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3064 Stream discovery & playlists:
3065 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3066 * support for .m3u file format
3067 * support for .asx file format
3068 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3071 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3072 (only available with the .avi demux)
3073 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3074 * support for raw PCM data
3075 * support for Cinepak video codec
3076 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3077 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3078 * support for Xvid codec
3079 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3080 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3081 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3083 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3085 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3088 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3091 * new WxWindows interface
3092 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3093 device and the channels configuration
3094 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3095 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3096 format that VLC can play
3097 * new swedish translation
3098 * enhancements of the playlist window
3099 * new messages window to see debug info
3100 * fixed a few crashes
3103 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3104 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3105 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3106 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working