3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
9 to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
10 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
11 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
12 edit the ".hosts" file.
13 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
14 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
15 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
16 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
17 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
18 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
19 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
20 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
21 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
22 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
23 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
24 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
25 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
26 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
27 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
28 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
31 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
32 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
33 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
34 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
35 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
36 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
37 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
38 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
39 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
45 * Vastly improved playlist support:
46 * Media library support
48 * Shoutcast TV listings
49 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
51 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
52 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
53 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
54 share/lua/meta/README.txt
57 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
58 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
59 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
60 * JACK audio input support
61 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
62 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
63 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
64 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
65 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
67 * APEv1/2 tags support
68 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
69 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
71 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
72 * TiVo Series 2 support
73 * v4l2 access module support
74 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
75 * CD+G karaoke Files support
77 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
79 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
80 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
81 (available as a separate download).
82 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
86 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
87 * MKV USF subtitles support
88 * HTML-based subtitles support
89 * Flash Screen Video support
90 * CamStudio Screen Video support
91 * DosBox Capture support
92 * Karl Morton's Video support
93 * limited atrac3 support
94 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
95 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
96 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
97 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
99 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
100 * NellyMoser ASAO support
101 * APE (Monkey audio) support
102 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
105 * Flash Screen Video support
106 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
108 Video output and filters:
109 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
110 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
111 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
112 * New puzzle video output filter
113 * Re-written motion detection video filter
114 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
116 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
117 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
118 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
119 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
120 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
121 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
122 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
123 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
124 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
125 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
126 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
127 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
129 Audio output and filters
130 * Replay gain support
131 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
132 * New spatializer audio filter
133 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
136 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
137 * New RTP payload formats:
138 * Speex voice audio codec
139 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
140 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
141 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
142 * DCCP transport for RTP
143 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
147 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
149 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
150 end-user suitable way.
151 * Improved user interaction
152 * Improved mouse gestures
153 * Fastly improved Update checker
154 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
156 * Improved video output features
157 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
158 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
159 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
160 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
162 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
163 if libncursesw is available.
164 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
165 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
167 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
168 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
169 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
170 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
171 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
172 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
173 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
174 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
177 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
178 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
179 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
182 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
183 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
184 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
185 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
186 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
189 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
190 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
198 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
199 ----------------------------------
202 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
203 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
204 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
205 * Fixed cinepak integer overflow
208 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
209 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
210 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
211 * Close MMS access on network timeout
212 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
215 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
216 ----------------------------------
219 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
220 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
223 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
224 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
225 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
226 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
228 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
232 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
235 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
238 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
241 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
244 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
245 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
246 encoding on multi-cpu systems
247 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
248 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
250 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
251 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
252 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
253 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
256 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
259 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
260 ----------------------------------
263 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
264 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
265 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
267 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
268 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
270 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
271 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
274 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
276 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
277 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
278 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
279 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
280 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
281 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
283 * Support for current Ogg file formats
284 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
285 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
288 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
291 * The automatic updating facility was removed
292 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
293 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
294 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
297 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
298 ----------------------------------
300 Various bugfixes, notably:
301 * Windows Vista compatibility
302 * Cropping in Direct3D
303 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
304 * RSS filter string overflow
306 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
308 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
309 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
312 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
313 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
316 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
319 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
322 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
325 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
326 ----------------------------------
328 Various bugfixes, notably:
329 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
330 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
331 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
332 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
333 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
334 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
337 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
338 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
341 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
343 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
344 * Diverse usability improvements
345 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
346 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
347 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
350 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
351 ---------------------------------
354 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
357 * Fullscreen controller improvements
360 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
361 --------------------------------
364 * Shoutcast TV listings support
367 * Support for RTSP authentication
368 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
369 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
370 * ATSC support for DVB input
371 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
372 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
373 * Improved support for Flash Video files
376 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
377 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
378 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
379 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
380 * Matroska WavPack support
381 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
382 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
383 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
386 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
387 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
388 * Improved libcaca support
392 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
393 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
395 * Systray support in skins
397 * Support for Apple Remote control
398 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
399 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
400 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
401 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
403 * Notifications using notification-daemon
406 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
408 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
409 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
410 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
411 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
412 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
414 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
415 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
424 * Updates to the libvlc API
425 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
428 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
429 --------------------------------
432 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
433 * Support for downloading updates
437 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
438 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
439 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
440 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
442 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
443 * Improved subtitles encoding support
444 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
447 * Cook (Real audio) support
449 Playlist / Services discovery:
450 * XSPF playlist support
452 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
455 * New JACK audio output
459 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
460 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
461 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
462 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
463 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
464 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
467 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
470 * System to inform the user and request information
471 - HTTP authentication
475 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
476 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
477 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
480 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
481 - Improved playlist handling
482 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
484 - Embedded Video output
485 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
486 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
487 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
488 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
489 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
491 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
492 - A bunch of new RPN functions
495 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
498 * Mac-Intel compatibility
499 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
500 * Growl "Now playing" support
503 * Ability to log to syslog
504 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
507 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
509 * A bit more automatic testing
512 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
513 ---------------------------------
516 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
517 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
520 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
521 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
524 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
527 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
528 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
534 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
537 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
538 --------------------------------
541 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
545 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
546 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
547 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
550 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
551 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
552 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
553 * GnomeVFS input module
554 * Support for RTP packet reordering
555 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
558 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
559 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
560 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
563 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
564 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
570 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
571 Mixer and Dolby Surround
574 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
575 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
576 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
579 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
581 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
582 - New extended controls panel
583 - New bookmarks window
584 - Fixed playlist sorting
585 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
587 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
588 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
589 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
590 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
594 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
595 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
597 - Include macro to include other files
601 * Should now work outside IE as well
604 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
607 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
608 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
611 The following languages were added:
616 The following languages were re-added:
620 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
621 --------------------------------
624 * Rewrite of the playlist
626 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
627 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
628 * Preferences improvements:
629 - New organization, designed to improve usability
630 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
632 * Core image manipulation support
633 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
634 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
635 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
636 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
637 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
638 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
639 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
640 now separated by ':' instead of ','
641 * Access filter architecture
642 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
643 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
647 * Support for SOCKS proxy
648 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
649 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
650 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
651 * Better support for Kasenna streams
652 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
653 * Massive Matroska improvements
654 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
656 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
657 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
658 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
659 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
660 * Support for FTP over IPv6
663 * Dirac decoder and encoder
664 * PNG decoder/encoder
665 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
666 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
669 * New Record and Timeshift filters
672 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
673 * Brand new SAP module
674 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
675 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
676 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
677 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
678 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
679 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
683 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
686 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
687 * Image file video output (png)
688 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
689 * Improvements to wall video filter
690 * Support for font color and opacity
696 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
697 - Seeking support in VoD streams
698 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
702 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
703 - Improved preferences
704 - Improvements to the wizard
705 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
707 - Redesigned playlist
708 - Improved preferences
710 - Support for multiple actions
713 - Support for the new playlist system
715 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
718 * Screensaver disabling fix
719 * DirectShow tuner configuration
720 * Support for no-decoration windows
723 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
724 * The OpenGL video output is back
725 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
726 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
727 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
728 is not yet available in the new module
729 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
732 * Support for single-buffered overlay
741 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
744 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
747 The following languages were added:
753 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
754 --------------------------------
757 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
758 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
761 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
762 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
763 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
766 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
769 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
772 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
775 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
776 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
777 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
781 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
783 * Support of playlist group announcement
786 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
787 --------------------------------
790 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
791 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
792 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
793 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
794 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
795 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
798 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
799 (Stream your desktop)
800 * Improved DVD support:
801 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
802 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
803 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
804 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
805 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
806 (selection of titles/chapters).
809 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
810 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
811 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
812 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
813 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
814 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
815 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
816 * Improved Ogg demuxer
817 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
818 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
821 * G.726 audio support
822 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
823 * MPEG-4 text support
824 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
825 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
826 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
830 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
831 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
832 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
833 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
834 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
835 * DVB subtitles encoder
836 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
837 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
839 * Text track muxing for mp4
840 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
841 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
842 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
843 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
844 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
847 * H.263 RTP streaming support
848 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
849 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
852 * New audio equalizer filter
853 * Very trivial volume normalizer
854 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
855 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
856 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
859 * Roku HD1000 Video output
860 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
861 with support for effects.
862 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
863 - New filters can be streamed.
864 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
865 - Centralized scaling and blending
867 - "time", to display current time
868 - "marq", to display a marquee
871 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
872 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
873 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
874 * A few skins2 improvements
875 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
876 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
877 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
878 * Improved CORBA control module
881 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
882 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
883 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
886 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
887 * Experimental SVG rendering module
888 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
891 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
892 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
893 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
894 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
895 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
898 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
901 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
902 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
905 * Server/client network synchronization module
906 * VBrick streams fully supported
907 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
911 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
912 --------------------------------
915 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
916 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
917 * Improved HTTP daemon.
918 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
921 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
922 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
923 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
924 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
925 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
926 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
927 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
930 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
931 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
932 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
933 * Improved directory access module.
934 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
935 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
936 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
937 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
938 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
941 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
942 * mmsh streaming fixes.
943 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
946 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
947 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
948 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
951 * Improved session announcement system.
952 * Minimize threads usage by default.
953 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
954 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
955 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
956 * Improved transrater.
957 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
958 * New configuration system.
959 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
962 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
963 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
964 * Supports live streams and VoD.
965 * Supports scheduling.
966 * Telnet interface for vlm.
967 * HTTP interface for vlm.
970 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
971 - Ability to embed video output.
972 - Support for bitmap fonts.
973 - Lots of improvements.
974 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
975 - New design and set of icons.
976 - Ability to embed video output.
977 - Support for hotkeys.
978 - Support for bookmarks.
980 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
981 - Better hotkeys handling.
984 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
985 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
986 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
987 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
990 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
991 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
992 * Improved Windows installer.
998 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
999 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1002 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1003 ---------------------------------
1006 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1007 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1010 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1011 --------------------------------
1014 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1015 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1018 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1019 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1020 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1021 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1024 * Internal improvments
1025 * Improved import/export
1028 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1030 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1031 small and strange formats.
1033 * New MOD audio demux.
1034 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1035 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1036 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1037 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1040 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1041 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1042 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1048 * New opengl video output plugin.
1051 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1052 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1055 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1056 --------------------------------
1059 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1060 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1061 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1062 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1063 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1064 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1065 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1066 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1069 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1074 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1075 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1076 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1077 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1078 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1079 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1080 * Better Icecast support.
1081 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1082 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1085 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1086 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1087 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1088 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1089 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1090 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1091 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1094 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1095 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1096 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1097 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1098 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1099 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1100 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1101 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1102 * Preliminary RTP support.
1103 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1108 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1109 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1111 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1112 - Improvements and help in preferences
1113 - New streaming wizard
1114 - Revised Disc Open menu
1116 - Improvements of the standard pages
1117 - Support for new commands
1118 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1121 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1122 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1125 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1126 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1127 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1128 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1129 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1130 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1131 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1132 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1133 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1136 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1138 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1139 * Support for Panther.
1140 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1141 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1144 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1145 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1146 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1147 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1148 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1149 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1150 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1151 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1154 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1155 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1156 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1159 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1162 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1163 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1164 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1165 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1168 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1169 --------------------------------
1172 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1175 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1176 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1179 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1180 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1183 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1186 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1187 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1190 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1193 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1196 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1197 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1201 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1202 --------------------------------
1205 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1206 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1210 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1211 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1212 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1214 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1215 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1218 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1221 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1224 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1225 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1229 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1230 --------------------------------
1233 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1234 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1238 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1239 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1240 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1241 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1242 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1245 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1246 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1247 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1250 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1251 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1252 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1255 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1256 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1257 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1258 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1259 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1262 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1263 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1264 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1267 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1270 * Improved build system.
1271 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1272 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1273 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1274 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1277 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1278 --------------------------------
1281 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1284 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1285 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1286 * Video 4 Linux support
1287 * CD Digital Audio support
1288 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1291 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1292 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1293 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1294 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1297 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1298 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1299 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1300 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1301 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1302 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1303 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1306 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1307 * New HTTP remote control interface
1310 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1311 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1312 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1313 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1316 * New reset option for the preferences
1317 * You can set your language in the prefences
1318 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1319 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1320 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1321 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1324 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1325 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1326 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1329 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1330 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1331 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1332 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1333 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1334 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1335 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1336 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1337 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1338 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1341 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1342 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1343 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1344 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1345 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1346 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1347 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1350 * Interface localization
1351 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1352 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1353 * New full-featured Preferences window
1356 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1361 * support for skins at the interface level
1362 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1363 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1364 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1365 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1366 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1369 * fixed HTTP redirects
1370 * support for opening an entire directory
1371 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1372 * new video4linux access plug-in
1373 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1376 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1377 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1378 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1381 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1382 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1383 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1384 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1385 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1386 * new codec for raw I420 video
1387 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1390 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1391 (although it still misses some important features)
1392 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1395 * new HTTP output support
1396 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1397 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1400 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1403 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1406 * reorderable playlist
1407 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1408 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1409 * support for mono audio output devices
1410 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1411 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1412 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1413 * the messages window remembers more lines
1414 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1415 * http and ogg stream output options
1416 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1419 * new skinnable interface
1420 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1422 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1423 * support for FLAC audio format
1424 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1426 * network tab in the interface
1427 * "apply" handling in preferences
1430 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1431 ---------------------------------
1434 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1435 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1436 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1437 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1439 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1440 * DTS S/PDIF support
1443 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1444 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1445 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1446 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1449 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1450 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1453 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1456 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1459 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1461 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1462 * rc interface is now fully useable
1463 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1466 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1467 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1468 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1469 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1470 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1472 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1473 * support for mouse gestures
1474 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1477 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1478 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1481 * improved ID3 tag detection
1482 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1483 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1484 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1486 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1489 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1490 ---------------------------------
1493 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1494 English was set as the preferred language
1497 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1498 --------------------------------
1501 * new mouse gesture interface
1502 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1506 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1507 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1508 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1511 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1512 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1516 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1519 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1520 without the user consent
1523 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1525 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1526 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1527 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1530 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1531 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1532 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1533 * playlist enhancements
1534 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1535 * new step forward/step backward commands
1536 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1537 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1538 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1541 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1542 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1543 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1546 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1547 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1550 * native video output is working again
1551 * only commandline interface support
1552 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1555 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1556 --------------------------------
1559 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1560 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1561 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1562 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1563 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1564 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1565 and A/52 streams are supported)
1566 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1571 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1572 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1573 * VCD entry points support
1574 * VCD image file support
1577 * support for *.asf format
1578 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1579 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1580 * support for ogg encapsulation
1581 * support for raw DV format
1582 * support for *.wav format
1583 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1586 Stream discovery & playlists:
1587 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1588 * support for .m3u file format
1589 * support for .asx file format
1590 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1593 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1594 (only available with the .avi demux)
1595 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1596 * support for raw PCM data
1597 * support for Cinepak video codec
1598 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1599 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1600 * support for Xvid codec
1601 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1602 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1603 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1605 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1607 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1610 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1613 * new WxWindows interface
1614 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1615 device and the channels configuration
1616 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1617 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1618 format that VLC can play
1619 * new swedish translation
1620 * enhancements of the playlist window
1621 * new messages window to see debug info
1622 * fixed a few crashes
1625 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1626 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1627 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1628 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working