1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
5 --------------------------------
8 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
10 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
11 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
12 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
14 3rd party libraries (contrib):
15 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
19 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
20 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
21 * Partial support for Windows Store App
23 * Add an audio fingerprinter
24 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
27 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
28 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
29 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
30 * Support for Ulead DV audio
31 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
32 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
33 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
34 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
35 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
36 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
37 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
38 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
41 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
42 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
45 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
46 remove support for previous OS X releases
47 * Major improvements in DASH support
48 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
49 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
50 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
51 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
52 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
53 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
54 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
55 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
56 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
57 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
60 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
61 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
62 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
63 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
64 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
65 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
66 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
67 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
68 * Support for more MJPEG streams
69 * Add support for liveleak streams
70 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
71 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
73 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
76 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
77 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
78 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
79 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
80 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
81 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
82 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
83 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
84 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
85 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
86 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
89 * New remapping channel filter
90 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
91 * New VSXu visualization plugin
92 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
93 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
96 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
97 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
98 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
99 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
100 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
101 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
102 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
103 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
106 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
107 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
108 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
109 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
110 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
111 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
112 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
115 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
116 * Options support for AVIO output module
117 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
118 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
119 * Livehttp stream encryption support
120 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
121 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
124 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
127 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
128 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
129 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
130 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
131 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
132 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
136 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
139 * Add support for multiple video outputs
140 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
142 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
143 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
144 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
145 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
146 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
147 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
148 VLC's internal volume level
149 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
151 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
152 selection and to manage the list of presets
153 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
154 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
155 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
156 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
157 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
158 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
159 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
160 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
161 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
162 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
164 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
165 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
166 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
167 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
168 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
169 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
170 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
171 3rd party applications
172 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
173 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
174 (system-wide settings)
175 * Add support for the Video Title option
176 * Add support for the Boss Key
177 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
178 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
181 * Partial support for Qt5.0
182 * Menus modifications and improvements
183 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
184 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
185 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
186 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
187 * EPG display fixes and improvements
188 * Add SD pixmap sources
189 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
190 * Display playlist total duration
191 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
193 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
194 * Remove language preference
195 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
200 * Extend sliders, offsets options
201 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
202 * Numerous fixes and improvements
203 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
206 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
207 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
208 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
209 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
210 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
211 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
212 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
213 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
214 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
215 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
218 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
219 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
220 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
221 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
222 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
223 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
225 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
226 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
227 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
228 * Broken crop video filter
230 * OSD parser and menu
231 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
232 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
233 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
234 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
238 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
239 --------------------------------
242 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
243 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
247 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
250 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
253 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
256 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
260 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
263 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
266 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
267 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
268 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
271 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
272 --------------------------------
275 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
278 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
281 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
282 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
283 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
284 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
285 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
286 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
289 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
290 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
291 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
292 * 3rd party codecs updates
295 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
296 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
297 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
298 in the advanced preferences panel
299 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
300 * Fix crash within the video output code
301 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
302 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
303 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
304 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
306 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
309 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
312 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
313 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
316 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
319 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
320 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
321 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
322 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
323 Dutch, Danish, translations
324 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
327 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
328 --------------------------------
331 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
334 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
335 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
336 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
339 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
340 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
341 * Fix koreus lua parser
342 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
343 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
344 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
345 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
348 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
349 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
352 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
355 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
356 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
357 * Fix Time counter UI look
358 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
361 * Fix https streaming
364 * Fix audio and video track selection:
365 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
366 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
369 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
370 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
371 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
372 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
373 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
376 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
377 --------------------------------
380 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
381 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
382 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
383 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
384 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
385 during playback on Mac OS X
388 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
389 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
390 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
393 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
394 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
395 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
396 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
397 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
400 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
401 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
402 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
403 * Support Youtube live streams
406 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
409 * Fix media info dialog update
410 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
411 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
412 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
413 * Fix album art display at start
416 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
417 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
418 * Fix menus display and behavior
419 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
420 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
421 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
422 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
423 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
424 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
425 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
428 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
429 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
430 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
431 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
432 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
433 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
434 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
435 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
436 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
439 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
440 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
441 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
442 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
443 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
446 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
447 --------------------------------
450 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
453 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
454 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
457 * Add GateKeeper support
458 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
459 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
460 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
463 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
466 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
467 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
468 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
469 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
470 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
473 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
474 --------------------------------
477 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
478 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
479 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
480 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
481 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
482 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
483 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
484 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
485 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
486 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
487 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
491 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
492 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
493 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
494 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
495 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
496 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
497 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
498 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
499 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
500 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
501 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
502 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
505 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
506 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
508 * Fix MP3 free format support
511 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
512 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
513 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
514 * Fix for DVB channels file support
515 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
518 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
519 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
521 Audio filters and output:
522 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
523 * Fix DirectSound device selection
524 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
525 * Do not apply volume in file output
526 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
527 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
530 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
531 the persistant media library
532 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
533 to the media library or the temporary playlist
534 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
535 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
536 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
537 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
538 press on the Play/Pause button
539 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
540 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
541 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
542 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
543 * Many Fullscreen fixes
544 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
545 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
546 Synchronization panel
547 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
548 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
549 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
550 * Fix crashes on exit
551 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
553 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
554 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
555 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
556 automatically reset on the first launch.
557 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
558 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
559 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
562 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
563 * Fixes for icecast SD
566 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
567 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
568 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
569 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
570 * Fix tags and file names display
571 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
574 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
575 * Fix for key events and focus loss
578 * Fix display of some buttons
579 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
580 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
583 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
584 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
585 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
588 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
589 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
590 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
591 Thai translations update
592 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
595 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
596 --------------------------------
599 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
600 * fix the samba module compilation
601 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
602 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
603 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
604 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
607 * Support for MXPEG files
608 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
609 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
612 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
613 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
614 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
617 * Fix ogm header creation
620 * limit spatializer filter distortions
621 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
624 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
625 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
626 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
627 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
630 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
633 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
634 * allow to hide the sidebar
635 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
636 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
637 * noticebly faster launch time
638 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
639 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
640 * improve track synchronization panel
641 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
642 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
645 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
646 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
647 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
648 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
651 * fix for menus display
652 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
653 * documentation update
656 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
657 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
660 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
661 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
662 * Update Jamendo selections
666 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
667 * fix a crash on VLM close
670 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
671 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
672 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
673 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
676 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
679 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
680 ---------------------------------
683 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
684 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
685 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
686 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
687 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
688 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
689 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
690 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
691 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
692 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
693 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
694 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
695 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
696 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
697 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
698 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
699 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
700 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
701 --http-crl (optional CRL).
702 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
703 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
704 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
705 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
706 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
707 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
708 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
710 Important changes for packagers:
711 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
712 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
713 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
714 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
715 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
716 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
717 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
718 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
719 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
720 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
723 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
724 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
725 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
726 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
727 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
728 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
729 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
732 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
733 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
734 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
735 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
736 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
737 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
738 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
739 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
740 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
741 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
742 * PulseAudio audio input support
743 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
744 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
745 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
746 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
747 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
748 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
749 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
750 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
753 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
754 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
755 are notably concerned.
756 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
757 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
758 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
759 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
760 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
761 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
762 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
763 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
764 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
765 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
766 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
767 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
768 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
769 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
770 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
773 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
774 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
775 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
776 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
777 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
778 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
779 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
780 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
781 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
782 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
783 * Improved support of tracker files
784 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
787 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
788 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
789 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
790 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
791 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
792 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
793 and important cleanups and optimisations
794 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
795 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
796 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
797 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
798 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
799 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
800 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
801 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
802 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
803 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
804 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
805 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
806 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
807 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
808 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
809 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
810 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
811 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
812 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
813 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
814 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
817 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
818 * New video output for iOS platform
819 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
820 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
821 * Various vmem improvements
822 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
823 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
824 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
825 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
826 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
827 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
829 Audio Output and Filters:
830 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
831 * New audio output in memory (amem)
832 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
833 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
834 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
835 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
836 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
837 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
838 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
839 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
842 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
843 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
844 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
845 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
846 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
847 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
848 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
849 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
850 * New anti-flickering filter
851 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
852 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
853 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
854 blackbox and customizable shadow.
855 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
856 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
857 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
860 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
861 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
862 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
863 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
864 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
865 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
866 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
867 * Major rework of VoD support
868 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
869 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
870 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
871 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
872 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
873 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
874 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
875 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
876 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
877 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
880 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
881 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
884 * New capabilities for libVLC:
885 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
886 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
887 list of available audio and video filters
888 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
889 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
890 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
893 * asademux, subsass: use libass
894 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
895 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
897 * upnp: use upnp_intel
898 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
899 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
900 * removal of the noise filter
901 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
902 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
903 removed in Growl's next release, too.
904 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
907 * Update of translations for most languages.
908 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
911 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
912 ----------------------------------
915 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
916 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
919 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
920 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
923 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
924 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
925 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
928 * Camtasia decoding fix.
931 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
932 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
935 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
938 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
939 ----------------------------------
942 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
943 including support for OS X Lion
944 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
945 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
948 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
951 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
952 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
953 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
956 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
959 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
960 ----------------------------------
963 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
964 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
967 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
968 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
969 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
970 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
971 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
973 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
974 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
975 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
977 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
978 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
981 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
984 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
987 * Fix quitting on Linux
988 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
992 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
995 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
998 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
999 ---------------------------------
1001 Windows and Mac OS X:
1002 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1005 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1006 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1009 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1012 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1015 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1017 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1018 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1020 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1021 * RTP output and XML export
1022 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1026 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1027 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1028 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1029 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1032 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1033 --------------------------------
1035 Windows and Mac OS X:
1036 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1039 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1042 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1043 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1044 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1045 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1046 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1047 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1050 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1051 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1055 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1056 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1057 * New Luganda Translation
1060 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1061 --------------------------------
1064 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1067 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1068 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1069 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1070 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1073 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1075 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1076 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1077 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1078 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1079 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1080 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1081 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1082 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1084 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1085 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1086 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1087 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1088 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1089 * Configure and build system improvements
1090 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1093 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1094 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1095 * New icelandic translation
1098 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1099 --------------------------------
1102 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1103 #234484 and #260719.
1106 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1107 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1108 and stability reasons
1111 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1115 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1118 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1119 ----------------------------------
1122 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1125 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1126 ---------------------------------
1129 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1130 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1131 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1132 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1135 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1138 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1139 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1140 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1141 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1144 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1145 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1146 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1148 Subtitles and renderer:
1149 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1150 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1151 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1152 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1153 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1156 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1157 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1158 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1159 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1162 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1163 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1165 Miscellaneous fixes:
1166 * KDE device solid actions
1168 * Transcode integer overflow
1169 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1170 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1173 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1174 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1175 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1178 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1179 ----------------------------------
1182 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1186 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1189 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1192 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1193 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1194 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1195 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1198 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1202 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1205 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1208 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1209 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1211 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1215 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1216 * Miscellaneous fixes
1219 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1220 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1221 French and Ukrainian
1222 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1223 * New Asturian translation
1226 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1227 ----------------------------------
1230 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1232 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1235 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1238 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1239 * Various fixes for Windows
1242 * New Armenian translation
1243 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1244 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1247 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1248 --------------------------------
1251 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1252 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1253 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1256 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1257 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1260 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1261 --------------------------------
1263 Access and demuxers:
1264 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1265 * fix for podcasts parsing
1266 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1269 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1270 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1273 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1274 * fix m3u playlists exports
1277 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1280 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1283 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1286 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1289 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1292 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1297 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1300 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1301 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1304 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1305 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1306 * fix console output encoding
1308 Interface and extensions:
1309 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1310 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1313 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1314 --------------------------------
1317 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1318 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1319 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1320 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1321 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1322 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1323 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1324 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1325 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1326 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1327 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1328 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1329 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1330 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1331 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1332 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1336 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1337 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1338 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1339 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1340 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1343 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1346 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1347 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1348 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1352 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1355 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1356 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1357 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1360 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1361 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1362 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1363 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1366 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1367 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1370 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1371 --------------------------------
1373 Important changes for users:
1374 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1375 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1377 Important changes for packagers:
1378 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1379 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1380 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1381 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1382 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1384 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1386 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1387 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1388 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1389 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1390 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1393 * Support for the sftp protocol
1394 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1395 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1396 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1397 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1398 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1401 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1402 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1403 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1405 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1406 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1407 * Invmem module improvements
1408 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1409 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1410 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1411 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1412 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1413 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1414 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1415 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1416 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1417 * Support for VP8 codec
1418 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1421 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1422 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1423 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1424 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1425 * Various EGP improvements
1426 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1427 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1430 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1431 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1432 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1433 * Podcast images are now displayed
1436 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1437 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1438 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1439 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1440 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1441 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1442 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1443 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1444 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1445 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1446 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1449 * New content extensions lua framework
1452 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1453 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1454 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1455 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1456 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1457 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1458 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1461 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1462 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1463 * Service discovery based on libudev
1464 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1467 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1468 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1469 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1470 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1471 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1472 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1473 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1476 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1477 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1478 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1481 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1483 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1484 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1487 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1490 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1491 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1492 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1493 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1494 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1495 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1496 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1499 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1500 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1503 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1504 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1505 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1509 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1510 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1511 * Improved Solaris port
1514 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1515 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1518 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1519 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1520 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1521 * transrate: broken since too long
1522 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1523 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1524 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1525 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1526 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1527 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1528 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1529 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1530 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1531 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1532 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1533 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1534 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1535 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1538 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1539 --------------------------------
1542 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1544 Decoders/Packetizers:
1545 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1548 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1549 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1550 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1551 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1552 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1555 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1556 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1559 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1560 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1563 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1564 and Walloon translations updated
1565 * Sinhala translation started
1568 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1569 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1572 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1573 --------------------------------
1576 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1577 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1580 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1583 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1584 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1587 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1588 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1589 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1590 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1593 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1594 --------------------------------
1597 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1598 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1601 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1602 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1605 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1606 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1609 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1612 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1613 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1616 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1617 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1620 * New Walloon translation
1621 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1624 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1625 --------------------------------
1628 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1629 regressions in most popular drivers
1630 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1633 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1634 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1635 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1638 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1639 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1642 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1643 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1644 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1645 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1646 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1649 * New udev module for linux
1652 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1655 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1658 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1663 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1664 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1667 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1668 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1671 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1672 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1675 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1678 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1679 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1680 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1681 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1684 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1685 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1686 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1687 - no support for Goom and SDL
1688 - limited text rendering support
1689 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1692 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1693 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1694 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1695 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1696 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1697 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1698 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1699 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1700 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1704 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1707 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1710 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1711 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1712 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1713 Arabic and French translation updates
1716 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1717 --------------------------------
1720 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1721 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1722 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1723 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1724 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1725 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1728 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1729 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1730 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1733 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1734 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1735 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1738 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1741 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1742 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1745 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1746 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1747 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1748 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1749 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1750 * Fix various crashes
1753 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1755 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1759 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1760 ---------------------------------
1764 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1765 See 'Access:' for more info.
1766 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1769 * Instantaneous pausing
1770 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1771 * Finer speed control
1772 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1773 * Timeshift for most medias
1774 * RTSP trickplay support
1775 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1778 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1779 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1780 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1781 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1782 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1783 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1784 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1785 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1786 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1787 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1790 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1791 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1792 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1793 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1794 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1795 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1796 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1799 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1800 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1803 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1804 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1805 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1806 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1807 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1808 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1809 * DVB scanning on linux
1810 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1811 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1812 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1813 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1814 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1815 * MTP device access on Unix
1816 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1817 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1820 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1821 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1822 Windows and Mac OS X.
1825 * Export the playlist in HTML
1826 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1827 * Better metadata handling and reading
1829 Linux/Windows interface:
1830 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1831 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1832 * Recently played items list
1833 * Interface toolbar customizations
1834 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1835 - More menus actions
1836 - Finer speed slider
1837 - Improvements on many dialogs
1838 - New dialog for plugins listing
1839 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1840 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1841 * Better integration in GTK environments
1844 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1845 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1846 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1847 * Additional usability improvements
1850 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1851 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1852 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1853 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1854 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1857 * New Maemo port with:
1858 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1859 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1862 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1865 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1866 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1867 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1868 * Support for latest iSight models
1871 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1872 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1875 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1876 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1877 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1878 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1879 The old image video output has been removed.
1880 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1881 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1884 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1892 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1893 --------------------------------------
1899 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1900 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1901 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1902 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1903 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1904 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1905 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1907 Various fixes to the following modules:
1910 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1911 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1912 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1914 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1919 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1920 ---------------------------------
1923 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1924 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1927 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1928 ---------------------------------
1931 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1934 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1937 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1938 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1939 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1940 main controller window.
1941 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1944 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1949 * Updates of other localizations
1952 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1953 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1954 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1955 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1956 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1959 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1960 ---------------------------------
1963 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1965 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1968 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1969 --------------------------------
1974 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1975 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1978 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1979 --------------------------------
1981 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1982 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1985 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1988 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1989 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1992 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1993 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1996 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1997 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1998 * Various fixed in playlist
2001 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2004 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2007 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2008 ------------------------------------
2010 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2011 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2014 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2015 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2016 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2019 * Stability fix for the video output.
2022 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2023 --------------------------------
2026 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2027 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2028 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2029 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2030 * Fixed update system bugs
2031 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2034 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2035 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2036 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2037 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2038 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2039 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2040 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2041 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2042 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2043 modern Mac OS X versions
2046 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2047 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2049 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2050 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2053 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2054 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2055 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2056 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2057 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2058 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2061 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2062 --------------------------------
2064 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2065 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2066 * Multiple bugfixes.
2069 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2070 --------------------------------
2072 * Multiple bug fixes.
2075 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2076 ---------------------------------
2080 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2081 recent to work correctly
2082 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2083 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2084 edit the ".hosts" file.
2085 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2086 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2087 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2088 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2089 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2090 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2091 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2092 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2093 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2094 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2095 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2096 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2097 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2098 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2099 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2100 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2101 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2102 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2103 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2104 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2105 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2106 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2107 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2108 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2109 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2110 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2111 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2112 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2113 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2114 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2115 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2116 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2117 and postproc modules.
2118 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2119 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2120 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2121 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2123 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2124 filter. For example:
2125 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2126 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2128 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2129 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2135 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2137 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2138 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2141 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2142 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2144 * Shoutcast TV listings
2145 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2147 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2148 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2150 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2153 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2154 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2155 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2156 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2157 * JACK audio input support
2158 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2159 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2160 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2161 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2162 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2163 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2164 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2165 (available as a separate download).
2166 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2167 * RTMP input support
2168 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2169 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2170 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2172 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2173 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2176 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2177 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2178 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2179 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2181 * APEv1/2 tags support
2182 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2183 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2185 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2186 * TiVo Series 2 support
2187 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2192 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2193 * Flash Screen Video support
2194 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2195 * DosBox Capture support
2196 * Karl Morton's Video support
2197 * limited atrac3 support
2199 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2200 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2201 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2202 * H.264 PAFF support
2203 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2204 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2205 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2206 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2207 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2210 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2211 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2212 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2213 * AQTitle subtitles support
2214 * MKV USF subtitles support
2215 * HTML-based subtitles support
2216 * MPSub subtitles support
2217 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2218 * MPL2 subtitles support
2219 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2220 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2221 * Realtext subtitle support
2222 * DKS subtitle support
2223 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2224 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2227 * Flash Screen Video support
2228 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2230 Video outputs and filters:
2231 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2232 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2233 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2234 * New puzzle video output filter
2235 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2236 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2238 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2239 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2240 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2241 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2242 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2243 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2244 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2245 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2246 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2247 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2248 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2249 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2250 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2251 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2253 Audio outputs and filters:
2254 * Replay gain support
2255 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2256 new scaletempo audio filter)
2257 * New spatializer audio filter
2258 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2261 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2262 * New RTP payload formats:
2263 * Speex voice audio codec
2264 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2265 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2266 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2267 * DCCP transport for RTP
2268 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2273 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2274 end-user suitable way.
2275 * Improved user interaction
2276 * Improved mouse gestures
2277 * Vastly improved Update checker
2278 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2280 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2281 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2283 * Improved video output features
2284 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2285 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2286 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2287 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2288 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2290 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2291 if libncursesw is available.
2292 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2293 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2294 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2296 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2297 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2298 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2299 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2300 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2301 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2302 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2303 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2306 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2307 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2308 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2311 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2312 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2313 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2314 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2315 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2316 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2319 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2320 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2330 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2331 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2332 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2335 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2336 ----------------------------------
2339 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2342 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2343 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2344 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2345 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2346 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2347 * Updated Polish translation
2350 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2351 ----------------------------------
2354 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2355 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2356 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2359 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2360 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2361 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2362 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2363 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2364 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2365 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2366 to an unexpected application termination
2367 * New Serbian translation
2368 * Updated Romanian translation
2371 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2372 ----------------------------------
2375 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2376 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2377 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2378 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2379 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2380 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2381 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2382 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2385 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2386 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2387 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2388 * Fixed AAC resampling
2389 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2390 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2393 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2394 ----------------------------------
2397 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2398 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2399 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2400 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2401 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2404 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2405 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2406 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2407 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2408 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2411 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2412 ----------------------------------
2415 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2416 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2419 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2420 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2421 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2422 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2424 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2428 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2431 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2434 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2437 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2440 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2441 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2442 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2443 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2444 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2446 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2447 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2448 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2449 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2452 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2455 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2456 ----------------------------------
2459 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2460 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2461 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2463 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2464 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2466 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2467 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2470 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2472 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2473 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2474 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2475 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2476 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2477 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2478 two different movies
2479 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2480 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2481 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2484 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2487 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2488 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2489 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2490 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2493 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2494 ----------------------------------
2496 Various bugfixes, notably:
2497 * Windows Vista compatibility
2498 * Cropping in Direct3D
2499 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2500 * RSS filter string overflow
2502 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2504 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2505 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2508 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2509 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2512 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2515 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2518 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2521 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2522 ----------------------------------
2524 Various bugfixes, notably:
2525 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2526 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2527 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2528 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2529 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2530 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2533 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2534 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2537 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2539 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2540 * Diverse usability improvements
2541 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2542 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2543 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2546 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2547 ---------------------------------
2549 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2550 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2553 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2556 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2557 --------------------------------
2560 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2563 * Support for RTSP authentication
2564 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2565 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2566 * ATSC support for DVB input
2567 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2568 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2569 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2572 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2573 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2574 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2575 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2576 * Matroska WavPack support
2577 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2578 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2579 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2582 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2583 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2584 * Improved libcaca support
2588 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2589 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2591 * Systray support in skins
2593 * Support for Apple Remote control
2594 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2595 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2596 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2597 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2599 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2602 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2603 Windows 9x/ME users:
2604 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2605 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2606 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2607 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2608 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2610 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2611 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2620 * Updates to the libvlc API
2621 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2624 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2625 --------------------------------
2628 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2629 * Support for downloading updates
2633 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2634 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2635 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2636 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2638 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2639 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2640 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2643 * Cook (Real audio) support
2645 Playlist / Services discovery:
2646 * XSPF playlist support
2648 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2651 * New JACK audio output
2654 * New video filters:
2655 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2656 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2657 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2658 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2659 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2660 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2663 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2666 * System to inform the user and request information
2667 - HTTP authentication
2671 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2672 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2673 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2676 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2677 - Improved playlist handling
2678 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2680 - Embedded Video output
2681 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2682 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2683 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2684 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2685 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2687 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2688 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2691 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2694 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2695 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2696 * Growl "Now playing" support
2699 * Ability to log to syslog
2700 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2703 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2705 * A bit more automatic testing
2708 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2709 ---------------------------------
2712 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2713 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2716 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2717 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2720 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2723 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2724 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2730 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2733 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2734 --------------------------------
2737 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2741 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2742 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2743 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2746 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2747 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2748 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2749 * GnomeVFS input module
2750 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2751 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2754 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2755 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2756 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2759 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2760 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2766 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2767 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2770 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2771 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2772 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2775 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2777 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2778 - New extended controls panel
2779 - New bookmarks window
2780 - Fixed playlist sorting
2781 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2783 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2784 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2785 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2786 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2790 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2791 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2793 - Include macro to include other files
2797 * Should now work outside IE as well
2800 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2803 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2804 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2807 The following languages were added:
2811 * Simplified Chinese
2812 The following languages were re-added:
2816 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2817 --------------------------------
2820 * Rewrite of the playlist
2822 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2823 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2824 * Preferences improvements:
2825 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2826 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2828 * Core image manipulation support
2829 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2830 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2831 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2832 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2833 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2834 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2835 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2836 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2837 * Access filter architecture
2838 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2839 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2843 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2844 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2845 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2846 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2847 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2848 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2849 * Massive Matroska improvements
2850 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2852 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2853 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2854 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2855 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2856 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2858 Decoders / Encoders:
2859 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2860 * PNG decoder/encoder
2861 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2862 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2865 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2868 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2869 * Brand new SAP module
2870 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2871 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2872 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2873 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2874 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2875 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2879 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2882 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2883 * Image file video output (png)
2884 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2885 * Improvements to wall video filter
2886 * Support for font color and opacity
2892 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2893 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2894 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2898 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2899 - Improved preferences
2900 - Improvements to the wizard
2901 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2903 - Redesigned playlist
2904 - Improved preferences
2906 - Support for multiple actions
2909 - Support for the new playlist system
2911 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2914 * Screensaver disabling fix
2915 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2916 * Support for no-decoration windows
2919 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2920 * The OpenGL video output is back
2921 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2922 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2923 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2924 is not yet available in the new module
2925 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2928 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2937 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2940 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2943 The following languages were added:
2949 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2950 --------------------------------
2953 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2954 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2957 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2958 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2959 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2962 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2965 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2968 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2971 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2972 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2973 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2977 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2979 * Support of playlist group announcement
2982 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2983 --------------------------------
2986 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2987 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2988 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2989 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2990 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2991 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2994 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2995 (Stream your desktop)
2996 * Improved DVD support:
2997 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2998 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2999 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3000 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3001 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3002 (selection of titles/chapters).
3005 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3006 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3007 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3008 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3009 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3010 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3011 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3012 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3013 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3014 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3017 * G.726 audio support
3018 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3019 * MPEG-4 text support
3020 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3021 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3022 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3026 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3027 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3028 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3029 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3030 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3031 * DVB subtitles encoder
3032 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3033 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3035 * Text track muxing for mp4
3036 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3037 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3038 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3039 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3040 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3041 * Improved ASF muxer
3043 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3044 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3045 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3048 * New audio equalizer filter
3049 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3050 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3051 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3052 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3055 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3056 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3057 with support for effects.
3058 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3059 - New filters can be streamed.
3060 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3061 - Centralized scaling and blending
3063 - "time", to display current time
3064 - "marq", to display a marquee
3067 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3068 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3069 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3070 * A few skins2 improvements
3071 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3072 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3073 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3074 * Improved CORBA control module
3077 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3078 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3079 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3082 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3083 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3084 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3087 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3088 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3089 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3090 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3091 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3094 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3097 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3098 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3101 * Server/client network synchronization module
3102 * VBrick streams fully supported
3103 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3107 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3108 --------------------------------
3111 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3112 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3113 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3114 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3117 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3118 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3119 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3120 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3121 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3122 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3123 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3126 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3127 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3128 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3129 * Improved directory access module.
3130 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3131 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3132 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3133 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3134 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3137 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3138 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3139 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3142 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3143 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3144 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3147 * Improved session announcement system.
3148 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3149 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3150 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3151 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3152 * Improved transrater.
3153 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3154 * New configuration system.
3155 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3158 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3159 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3160 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3161 * Supports scheduling.
3162 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3163 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3166 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3167 - Ability to embed video output.
3168 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3169 - Lots of improvements.
3170 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3171 - New design and set of icons.
3172 - Ability to embed video output.
3173 - Support for hotkeys.
3174 - Support for bookmarks.
3176 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3177 - Better hotkeys handling.
3180 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3181 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3182 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3183 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3186 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3187 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3188 * Improved Windows installer.
3194 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3195 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3198 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3199 ---------------------------------
3202 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3203 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3206 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3207 --------------------------------
3210 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3211 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3214 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3215 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3216 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3217 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3220 * Internal improvments
3221 * Improved import/export
3224 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3226 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3227 small and strange formats.
3229 * New MOD audio demux.
3230 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3231 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3232 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3233 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3236 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3237 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3238 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3244 * New opengl video output plugin.
3247 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3248 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3251 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3252 --------------------------------
3255 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3256 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3257 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3258 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3259 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3260 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3261 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3262 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3265 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3270 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3271 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3272 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3273 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3274 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3275 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3276 * Better Icecast support.
3277 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3278 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3281 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3282 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3283 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3284 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3285 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3286 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3287 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3290 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3291 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3292 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3293 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3294 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3295 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3296 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3297 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3298 * Preliminary RTP support.
3299 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3304 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3305 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3307 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3308 - Improvements and help in preferences
3309 - New streaming wizard
3310 - Revised Disc Open menu
3312 - Improvements of the standard pages
3313 - Support for new commands
3314 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3317 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3318 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3321 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3322 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3323 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3324 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3325 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3326 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3327 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3328 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3329 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3332 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3334 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3335 * Support for Panther.
3336 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3337 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3340 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3341 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3342 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3343 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3344 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3345 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3346 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3347 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3350 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3351 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3352 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3355 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3358 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3359 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3360 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3361 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3364 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3365 --------------------------------
3368 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3371 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3372 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3375 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3376 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3379 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3382 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3383 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3386 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3389 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3392 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3393 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3397 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3398 --------------------------------
3401 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3402 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3406 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3407 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3408 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3410 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3411 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3414 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3417 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3420 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3421 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3425 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3426 --------------------------------
3429 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3430 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3434 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3435 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3436 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3437 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3438 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3441 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3442 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3443 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3446 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3447 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3448 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3451 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3452 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3453 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3454 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3455 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3458 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3459 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3460 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3463 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3466 * Improved build system.
3467 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3468 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3469 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3470 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3473 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3474 --------------------------------
3477 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3480 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3481 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3482 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3483 * Video 4 Linux support
3484 * CD Digital Audio support
3485 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3488 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3489 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3490 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3491 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3494 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3495 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3496 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3497 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3498 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3499 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3500 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3503 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3504 * New HTTP remote control interface
3507 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3508 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3509 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3510 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3511 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3514 * New reset option for the preferences
3515 * You can set your language in the prefences
3516 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3517 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3518 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3519 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3522 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3523 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3524 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3527 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3528 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3529 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3530 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3531 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3532 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3533 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3534 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3535 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3536 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3539 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3540 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3541 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3542 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3543 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3544 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3545 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3548 * Interface localization
3549 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3550 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3551 * New full-featured Preferences window
3554 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3555 --------------------------------
3558 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3559 * support for skins at the interface level
3560 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3561 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3562 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3563 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3564 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3567 * fixed HTTP redirects
3568 * support for opening an entire directory
3569 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3570 * new video4linux access plug-in
3571 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3574 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3575 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3576 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3579 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3580 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3581 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3582 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3583 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3584 * new codec for raw I420 video
3585 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3588 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3589 (although it still misses some important features)
3590 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3593 * new HTTP output support
3594 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3595 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3598 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3601 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3604 * reorderable playlist
3605 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3606 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3607 * support for mono audio output devices
3608 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3609 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3610 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3611 * the messages window remembers more lines
3612 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3613 * http and ogg stream output options
3614 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3617 * new skinnable interface
3618 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3620 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3621 * support for FLAC audio format
3622 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3624 * network tab in the interface
3625 * "apply" handling in preferences
3628 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3629 ---------------------------------
3632 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3633 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3634 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3635 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3637 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3638 * DTS S/PDIF support
3641 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3642 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3643 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3644 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3647 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3648 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3651 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3654 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3657 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3659 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3660 * rc interface is now fully useable
3661 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3664 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3665 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3666 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3667 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3668 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3670 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3671 * support for mouse gestures
3672 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3675 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3676 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3679 * improved ID3 tag detection
3680 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3681 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3682 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3684 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3687 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3688 ---------------------------------
3691 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3692 English was set as the preferred language
3695 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3696 --------------------------------
3699 * new mouse gesture interface
3700 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3704 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3705 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3706 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3709 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3710 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3714 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3717 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3718 without the user consent
3721 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3723 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3724 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3725 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3728 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3729 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3730 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3731 * playlist enhancements
3732 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3733 * new step forward/step backward commands
3734 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3735 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3736 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3739 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3740 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3741 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3744 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3745 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3748 * native video output is working again
3749 * only commandline interface support
3750 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3753 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3754 --------------------------------
3757 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3758 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3759 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3760 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3761 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3762 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3763 and A/52 streams are supported)
3764 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3769 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3770 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3771 * VCD entry points support
3772 * VCD image file support
3775 * support for *.asf format
3776 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3777 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3778 * support for ogg encapsulation
3779 * support for raw DV format
3780 * support for *.wav format
3781 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3784 Stream discovery & playlists:
3785 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3786 * support for .m3u file format
3787 * support for .asx file format
3788 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3791 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3792 (only available with the .avi demux)
3793 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3794 * support for raw PCM data
3795 * support for Cinepak video codec
3796 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3797 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3798 * support for Xvid codec
3799 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3800 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3801 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3803 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3805 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3808 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3811 * new WxWindows interface
3812 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3813 device and the channels configuration
3814 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3815 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3816 format that VLC can play
3817 * new swedish translation
3818 * enhancements of the playlist window
3819 * new messages window to see debug info
3820 * fixed a few crashes
3823 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3824 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3825 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3826 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working