1 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
10 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
11 * Invmem modules improvements
14 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
15 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
16 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
17 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
18 * Various EGP improvements
21 * WPL playlist support
22 * ZPL playlist support
23 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
24 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
25 * Podcast images are now displayed
28 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
29 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
30 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
31 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
32 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
33 * NEON assembly audio converter module
36 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
37 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
38 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
39 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
40 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
41 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
44 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
45 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
46 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
47 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
48 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
51 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
54 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
55 * Service discovery based on libudev
58 * New smem module, streaming to memory
61 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
64 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
67 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
74 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead)
75 * HAL (use libudev instead)
76 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
79 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
80 --------------------------------
83 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
84 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
85 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
88 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
89 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
92 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
93 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
96 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
99 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
100 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
101 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
102 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
105 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
106 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
107 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
108 - no support for Goom and SDL
109 - limited text rendering support
110 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
113 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
114 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
115 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
116 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
117 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
118 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
119 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
120 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
121 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
125 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
128 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
131 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
132 --------------------------------
135 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
136 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
137 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
138 * Fix Dailymotion access script
139 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
140 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
143 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
144 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
147 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
148 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
149 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
152 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
155 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
156 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
159 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
160 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
161 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
162 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
163 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
164 * Fix various crashes
167 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
169 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
172 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
173 ---------------------------------
177 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
178 See 'Access:' for more info.
179 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
182 * Instantaneous pausing
183 * Frame-by-Frame playback
184 * Finer speed control
185 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
186 * Timeshift for most medias
187 * RTSP trickplay support
188 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
191 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
192 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
193 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
194 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
195 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
196 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
197 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
198 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
199 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
200 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
203 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
204 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
205 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
206 * Metadata for mod files are supported
207 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
208 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
209 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
212 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
213 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
216 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
217 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
218 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
219 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
220 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
221 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
222 * DVB scanning on linux
223 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
224 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
225 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
226 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
227 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
228 * MTP device access on Unix
229 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
230 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
233 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
234 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
235 Windows and Mac OS X.
238 * Export the playlist in HTML
239 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
240 * Better metadata handling and reading
242 Linux/Windows interface:
243 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
244 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
245 * Recently played items list
246 * Interface toolbar customizations
247 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
250 - Improvements on many dialogs
251 - New dialog for plugins listing
252 - Fixed-size mode for videos
253 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
254 * Better integration in GTK environments
257 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
258 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
259 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
260 * Additional usability improvements
263 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
264 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
265 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
266 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
267 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
270 * New Maemo port with:
271 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
272 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
275 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
278 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
279 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
280 * Support for latest iSight models
283 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
284 * Surround support for PulseAudio
287 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
288 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
289 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
290 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
291 The old image video output has been removed.
292 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
293 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
296 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
301 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
302 ---------------------------------
305 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
306 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
309 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
310 ---------------------------------
313 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
316 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
319 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
320 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
321 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
322 main controller window.
323 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
326 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
331 * Updates of other localizations
334 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
335 * Lots of small bugfixes.
336 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
337 * Telnet fixes on Windows
338 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
340 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
341 ---------------------------------
344 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
346 Bunch of small bugfixes.
349 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
350 --------------------------------
355 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
356 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
359 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
360 --------------------------------
362 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
363 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
366 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
369 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
370 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
373 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
374 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
377 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
378 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
379 * Various fixed in playlist
382 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
385 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
388 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
389 ------------------------------------
391 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
392 * Fixes several memory leaks.
395 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
396 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
397 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
400 * Stability fix for the video output.
403 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
404 --------------------------------
407 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
408 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
409 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
410 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
411 * Fixed update system bugs
412 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
415 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
416 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
417 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
418 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
419 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
420 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
421 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
422 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
423 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
424 modern Mac OS X versions
427 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
428 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
430 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
431 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
434 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
435 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
436 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
437 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
438 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
439 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
442 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
443 --------------------------------
445 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
446 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
450 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
451 --------------------------------
453 * Multiple bug fixes.
456 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
457 ---------------------------------
461 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
462 recent to work correctly
463 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
464 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
465 edit the ".hosts" file.
466 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
467 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
468 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
469 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
470 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
471 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
472 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
473 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
474 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
475 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
476 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
477 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
478 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
479 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
480 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
481 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
482 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
483 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
484 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
485 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
486 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
487 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
488 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
489 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
490 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
491 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
492 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
493 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
494 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
495 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
496 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
497 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
498 and postproc modules.
499 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
500 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
501 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
502 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
504 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
506 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
507 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
509 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
510 * Glide video output module has been removed.
516 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
518 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
519 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
522 * Vastly improved playlist support:
523 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
525 * Shoutcast TV listings
526 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
528 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
529 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
531 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
534 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
535 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
536 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
537 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
538 * JACK audio input support
539 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
540 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
541 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
542 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
543 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
544 * Experimental EyeTV access module
545 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
546 (available as a separate download).
547 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
549 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
550 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
551 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
553 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
554 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
557 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
558 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
559 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
560 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
562 * APEv1/2 tags support
563 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
564 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
566 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
567 * TiVo Series 2 support
568 * CD+G karaoke Files support
573 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
574 * Flash Screen Video support
575 * CamStudio Screen Video support
576 * DosBox Capture support
577 * Karl Morton's Video support
578 * limited atrac3 support
580 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
581 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
582 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
584 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
585 * NellyMoser ASAO support
586 * APE (Monkey audio) support
587 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
588 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
591 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
592 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
593 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
594 * AQTitle subtitles support
595 * MKV USF subtitles support
596 * HTML-based subtitles support
597 * MPSub subtitles support
598 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
599 * MPL2 subtitles support
600 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
601 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
602 * Realtext subtitle support
603 * DKS subtitle support
604 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
605 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
608 * Flash Screen Video support
609 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
611 Video outputs and filters:
612 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
613 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
614 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
615 * New puzzle video output filter
616 * Re-written motion detection video filter
617 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
619 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
620 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
621 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
622 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
623 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
624 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
625 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
626 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
627 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
628 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
629 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
630 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
631 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
632 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
634 Audio outputs and filters:
635 * Replay gain support
636 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
637 new scaletempo audio filter)
638 * New spatializer audio filter
639 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
642 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
643 * New RTP payload formats:
644 * Speex voice audio codec
645 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
646 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
647 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
648 * DCCP transport for RTP
649 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
654 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
655 end-user suitable way.
656 * Improved user interaction
657 * Improved mouse gestures
658 * Vastly improved Update checker
659 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
661 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
662 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
664 * Improved video output features
665 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
666 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
667 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
668 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
669 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
671 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
672 if libncursesw is available.
673 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
674 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
675 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
677 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
678 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
679 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
680 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
681 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
682 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
683 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
684 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
687 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
688 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
689 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
692 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
693 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
694 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
695 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
696 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
697 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
700 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
701 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
711 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
712 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
713 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
716 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
717 ----------------------------------
720 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
723 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
724 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
725 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
726 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
727 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
728 * Updated Polish translation
731 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
732 ----------------------------------
735 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
736 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
737 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
740 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
741 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
742 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
743 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
744 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
745 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
746 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
747 to an unexpected application termination
748 * New Serbian translation
749 * Updated Romanian translation
752 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
753 ----------------------------------
756 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
757 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
758 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
759 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
760 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
761 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
762 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
763 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
766 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
767 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
768 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
769 * Fixed AAC resampling
770 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
771 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
774 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
775 ----------------------------------
778 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
779 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
780 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
781 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
782 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
785 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
786 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
787 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
788 * Close MMS access on network timeout
789 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
792 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
793 ----------------------------------
796 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
797 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
800 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
801 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
802 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
803 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
805 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
809 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
812 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
815 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
818 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
821 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
822 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
823 encoding on multi-cpu systems
824 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
825 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
827 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
828 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
829 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
830 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
833 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
836 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
837 ----------------------------------
840 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
841 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
842 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
844 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
845 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
847 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
848 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
851 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
853 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
854 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
855 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
856 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
857 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
858 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
860 * Support for current Ogg file formats
861 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
862 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
865 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
868 * The automatic updating facility was removed
869 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
870 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
871 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
874 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
875 ----------------------------------
877 Various bugfixes, notably:
878 * Windows Vista compatibility
879 * Cropping in Direct3D
880 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
881 * RSS filter string overflow
883 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
885 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
886 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
889 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
890 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
893 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
896 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
899 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
902 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
903 ----------------------------------
905 Various bugfixes, notably:
906 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
907 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
908 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
909 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
910 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
911 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
914 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
915 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
918 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
920 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
921 * Diverse usability improvements
922 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
923 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
924 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
927 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
928 ---------------------------------
931 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
934 * Fullscreen controller improvements
937 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
938 --------------------------------
941 * Shoutcast TV listings support
944 * Support for RTSP authentication
945 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
946 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
947 * ATSC support for DVB input
948 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
949 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
950 * Improved support for Flash Video files
953 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
954 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
955 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
956 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
957 * Matroska WavPack support
958 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
959 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
960 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
963 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
964 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
965 * Improved libcaca support
969 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
970 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
972 * Systray support in skins
974 * Support for Apple Remote control
975 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
976 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
977 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
978 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
980 * Notifications using notification-daemon
983 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
985 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
986 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
987 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
988 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
989 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
991 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
992 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1001 * Updates to the libvlc API
1002 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1005 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1006 --------------------------------
1009 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1010 * Support for downloading updates
1014 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1015 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1016 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1017 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1019 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1020 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1021 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1024 * Cook (Real audio) support
1026 Playlist / Services discovery:
1027 * XSPF playlist support
1029 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1032 * New JACK audio output
1035 * New video filters:
1036 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1037 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1038 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1039 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1040 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1041 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1044 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1047 * System to inform the user and request information
1048 - HTTP authentication
1052 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1053 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1054 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1057 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1058 - Improved playlist handling
1059 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1061 - Embedded Video output
1062 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1063 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1064 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1065 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1066 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1068 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1069 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1072 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1075 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1076 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1077 * Growl "Now playing" support
1080 * Ability to log to syslog
1081 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1084 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1086 * A bit more automatic testing
1089 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1090 ---------------------------------
1093 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1094 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1097 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1098 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1101 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1104 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1105 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1111 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1114 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1122 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1123 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1124 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1127 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1128 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1129 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1130 * GnomeVFS input module
1131 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1132 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1135 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1136 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1137 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1140 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1141 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1147 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1148 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1151 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1152 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1153 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1156 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1158 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1159 - New extended controls panel
1160 - New bookmarks window
1161 - Fixed playlist sorting
1162 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1164 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1165 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1166 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1167 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1171 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1172 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1174 - Include macro to include other files
1178 * Should now work outside IE as well
1181 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1184 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1185 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1188 The following languages were added:
1192 * Simplified Chinese
1193 The following languages were re-added:
1197 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1198 --------------------------------
1201 * Rewrite of the playlist
1203 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1204 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1205 * Preferences improvements:
1206 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1207 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1209 * Core image manipulation support
1210 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1211 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1212 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1213 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1214 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1215 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1216 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1217 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1218 * Access filter architecture
1219 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1220 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1224 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1225 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1226 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1227 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1228 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1229 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1230 * Massive Matroska improvements
1231 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1233 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1234 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1235 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1236 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1237 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1239 Decoders / Encoders:
1240 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1241 * PNG decoder/encoder
1242 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1243 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1246 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1249 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1250 * Brand new SAP module
1251 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1252 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1253 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1254 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1255 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1256 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1260 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1263 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1264 * Image file video output (png)
1265 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1266 * Improvements to wall video filter
1267 * Support for font color and opacity
1273 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1274 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1275 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1279 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1280 - Improved preferences
1281 - Improvements to the wizard
1282 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1284 - Redesigned playlist
1285 - Improved preferences
1287 - Support for multiple actions
1290 - Support for the new playlist system
1292 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1295 * Screensaver disabling fix
1296 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1297 * Support for no-decoration windows
1300 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1301 * The OpenGL video output is back
1302 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1303 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1304 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1305 is not yet available in the new module
1306 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1309 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1318 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1321 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1324 The following languages were added:
1330 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1331 --------------------------------
1334 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1335 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1338 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1339 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1340 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1343 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1346 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1349 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1352 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1353 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1354 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1358 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1360 * Support of playlist group announcement
1363 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1364 --------------------------------
1367 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1368 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1369 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1370 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1371 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1372 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1375 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1376 (Stream your desktop)
1377 * Improved DVD support:
1378 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1379 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1380 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1381 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1382 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1383 (selection of titles/chapters).
1386 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1387 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1388 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1389 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1390 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1391 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1392 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1393 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1394 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1395 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1398 * G.726 audio support
1399 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1400 * MPEG-4 text support
1401 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1402 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1403 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1407 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1408 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1409 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1410 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1411 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1412 * DVB subtitles encoder
1413 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1414 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1416 * Text track muxing for mp4
1417 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1418 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1419 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1420 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1421 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1422 * Improved ASF muxer
1424 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1425 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1426 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1429 * New audio equalizer filter
1430 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1431 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1432 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1433 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1436 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1437 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1438 with support for effects.
1439 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1440 - New filters can be streamed.
1441 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1442 - Centralized scaling and blending
1444 - "time", to display current time
1445 - "marq", to display a marquee
1448 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1449 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1450 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1451 * A few skins2 improvements
1452 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1453 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1454 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1455 * Improved CORBA control module
1458 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1459 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1460 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1463 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1464 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1465 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1468 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1469 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1470 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1471 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1472 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1475 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1478 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1479 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1482 * Server/client network synchronization module
1483 * VBrick streams fully supported
1484 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1488 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1489 --------------------------------
1492 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1493 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1494 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1495 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1498 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1499 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1500 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1501 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1502 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1503 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1504 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1507 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1508 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1509 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1510 * Improved directory access module.
1511 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1512 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1513 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1514 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1515 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1518 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1519 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1520 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1523 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1524 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1525 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1528 * Improved session announcement system.
1529 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1530 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1531 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1532 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1533 * Improved transrater.
1534 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1535 * New configuration system.
1536 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1539 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1540 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1541 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1542 * Supports scheduling.
1543 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1544 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1547 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1548 - Ability to embed video output.
1549 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1550 - Lots of improvements.
1551 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1552 - New design and set of icons.
1553 - Ability to embed video output.
1554 - Support for hotkeys.
1555 - Support for bookmarks.
1557 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1558 - Better hotkeys handling.
1561 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1562 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1563 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1564 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1567 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1568 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1569 * Improved Windows installer.
1575 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1576 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1579 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1580 ---------------------------------
1583 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1584 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1587 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1588 --------------------------------
1591 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1592 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1595 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1596 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1597 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1598 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1601 * Internal improvments
1602 * Improved import/export
1605 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1607 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1608 small and strange formats.
1610 * New MOD audio demux.
1611 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1612 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1613 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1614 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1617 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1618 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1619 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1625 * New opengl video output plugin.
1628 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1629 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1632 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1633 --------------------------------
1636 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1637 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1638 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1639 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1640 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1641 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1642 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1643 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1646 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1651 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1652 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1653 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1654 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1655 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1656 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1657 * Better Icecast support.
1658 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1659 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1662 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1663 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1664 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1665 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1666 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1667 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1668 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1671 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1672 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1673 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1674 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1675 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1676 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1677 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1678 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1679 * Preliminary RTP support.
1680 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1685 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1686 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1688 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1689 - Improvements and help in preferences
1690 - New streaming wizard
1691 - Revised Disc Open menu
1693 - Improvements of the standard pages
1694 - Support for new commands
1695 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1698 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1699 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1702 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1703 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1704 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1705 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1706 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1707 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1708 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1709 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1710 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1713 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1715 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1716 * Support for Panther.
1717 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1718 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1721 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1722 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1723 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1724 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1725 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1726 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1727 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1728 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1731 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1732 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1733 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1736 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1739 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1740 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1741 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1742 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1745 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1746 --------------------------------
1749 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1752 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1753 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1756 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1757 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1760 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1763 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1764 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1767 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1770 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1773 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1774 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1778 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1783 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1787 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1788 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1789 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1791 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1792 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1795 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1798 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1801 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1802 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1806 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1807 --------------------------------
1810 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1811 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1815 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1816 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1817 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1818 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1819 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1822 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1823 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1824 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1827 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1828 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1829 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1832 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1833 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1834 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1835 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1836 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1839 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1840 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1841 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1844 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1847 * Improved build system.
1848 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1849 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1850 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1851 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1854 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1855 --------------------------------
1858 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1861 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1862 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1863 * Video 4 Linux support
1864 * CD Digital Audio support
1865 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1868 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1869 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1870 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1871 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1874 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1875 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1876 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1877 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1878 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1879 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1880 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1883 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1884 * New HTTP remote control interface
1887 * 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.
1888 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1889 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1890 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1893 * New reset option for the preferences
1894 * You can set your language in the prefences
1895 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1896 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1897 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1898 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1901 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1902 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1903 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1906 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1907 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1908 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1909 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1910 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1911 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1912 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1913 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1914 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1915 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1918 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1919 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1920 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1921 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1922 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1923 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1924 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1927 * Interface localization
1928 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1929 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1930 * New full-featured Preferences window
1933 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1934 --------------------------------
1937 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1938 * support for skins at the interface level
1939 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1940 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1941 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1942 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1943 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1946 * fixed HTTP redirects
1947 * support for opening an entire directory
1948 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1949 * new video4linux access plug-in
1950 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1953 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1954 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1955 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1958 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1959 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1960 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1961 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1962 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1963 * new codec for raw I420 video
1964 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1967 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1968 (although it still misses some important features)
1969 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1972 * new HTTP output support
1973 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1974 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1977 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1980 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1983 * reorderable playlist
1984 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1985 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1986 * support for mono audio output devices
1987 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1988 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1989 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1990 * the messages window remembers more lines
1991 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1992 * http and ogg stream output options
1993 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1996 * new skinnable interface
1997 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1999 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2000 * support for FLAC audio format
2001 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2003 * network tab in the interface
2004 * "apply" handling in preferences
2007 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2008 ---------------------------------
2011 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2012 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2013 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2014 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2016 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2017 * DTS S/PDIF support
2020 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2021 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2022 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2023 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2026 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2027 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2030 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2033 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2036 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2038 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2039 * rc interface is now fully useable
2040 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2043 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2044 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2045 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2046 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2047 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2049 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2050 * support for mouse gestures
2051 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2054 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2055 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2058 * improved ID3 tag detection
2059 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2060 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2061 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2063 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2066 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2067 ---------------------------------
2070 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2071 English was set as the preferred language
2074 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2075 --------------------------------
2078 * new mouse gesture interface
2079 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2083 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2084 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2085 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2088 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2089 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2093 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2096 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2097 without the user consent
2100 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2102 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2103 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2104 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2107 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2108 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2109 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2110 * playlist enhancements
2111 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2112 * new step forward/step backward commands
2113 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2114 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2115 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2118 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2119 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2120 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2123 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2124 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2127 * native video output is working again
2128 * only commandline interface support
2129 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2132 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2133 --------------------------------
2136 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2137 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2138 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2139 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2140 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2141 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2142 and A/52 streams are supported)
2143 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2148 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2149 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2150 * VCD entry points support
2151 * VCD image file support
2154 * support for *.asf format
2155 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2156 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2157 * support for ogg encapsulation
2158 * support for raw DV format
2159 * support for *.wav format
2160 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2163 Stream discovery & playlists:
2164 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2165 * support for .m3u file format
2166 * support for .asx file format
2167 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2170 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2171 (only available with the .avi demux)
2172 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2173 * support for raw PCM data
2174 * support for Cinepak video codec
2175 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2176 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2177 * support for Xvid codec
2178 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2179 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2180 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2182 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2184 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2187 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2190 * new WxWindows interface
2191 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2192 device and the channels configuration
2193 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2194 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2195 format that VLC can play
2196 * new swedish translation
2197 * enhancements of the playlist window
2198 * new messages window to see debug info
2199 * fixed a few crashes
2202 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2203 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2204 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2205 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working