1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for Atrac1 codec
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
20 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
23 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
24 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
25 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
26 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
27 * Various EGP improvements
28 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
31 * WPL playlist support
32 * ZPL playlist support
33 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
34 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
35 * Podcast images are now displayed
38 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
39 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
40 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
41 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
42 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
43 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
44 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
45 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
46 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
47 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
48 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
51 * new content extensions lua framework
55 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
56 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
57 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
58 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
59 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
60 * NEON assembly audio converter module
61 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
64 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
67 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
68 * Service discovery based on libudev
71 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
72 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
73 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
74 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
75 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
76 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
79 * New smem module, streaming to memory
80 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
81 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
84 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
86 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
89 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
92 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
93 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
94 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
95 by Andy Matuschak et al.
96 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
99 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
100 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
103 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
107 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
110 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
113 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
114 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
115 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
117 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
118 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
119 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
120 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
121 * opie, qte and qte_main
122 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
123 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
124 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
126 * cddax. Use cdda instead
127 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
128 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
129 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
132 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
133 --------------------------------
136 * SubRip extra styles improvements
137 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
140 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
143 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
144 increase performance and fix x264 issues
147 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
148 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
149 Russian, Slovak translation updates
150 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
153 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
154 --------------------------------
157 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
158 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
161 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
162 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
165 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
166 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
169 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
172 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
173 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
176 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
177 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
180 * New Walloon translation
181 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
184 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
185 --------------------------------
188 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
189 regressions in most popular drivers
190 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
193 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
194 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
195 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
198 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
199 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
202 * Update for appletrailers lua script
203 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
204 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
205 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
206 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
209 * New udev module for linux
212 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
215 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
218 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
219 --------------------------------
222 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
223 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
224 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
227 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
228 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
231 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
232 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
235 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
238 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
239 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
240 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
241 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
244 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
245 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
246 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
247 - no support for Goom and SDL
248 - limited text rendering support
249 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
252 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
253 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
254 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
255 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
256 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
257 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
258 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
259 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
260 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
264 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
267 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
270 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
271 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
272 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
273 Arabic and French translation updates
276 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
277 --------------------------------
280 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
281 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
282 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
283 * Fix Dailymotion access script
284 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
285 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
288 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
289 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
292 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
293 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
294 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
297 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
300 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
301 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
304 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
305 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
306 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
307 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
308 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
309 * Fix various crashes
312 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
314 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
317 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
318 ---------------------------------
322 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
323 See 'Access:' for more info.
324 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
327 * Instantaneous pausing
328 * Frame-by-Frame playback
329 * Finer speed control
330 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
331 * Timeshift for most medias
332 * RTSP trickplay support
333 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
336 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
337 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
338 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
339 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
340 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
341 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
342 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
343 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
344 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
345 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
348 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
349 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
350 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
351 * Metadata for mod files are supported
352 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
353 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
354 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
357 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
358 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
361 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
362 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
363 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
364 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
365 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
366 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
367 * DVB scanning on linux
368 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
369 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
370 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
371 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
372 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
373 * MTP device access on Unix
374 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
375 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
378 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
379 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
380 Windows and Mac OS X.
383 * Export the playlist in HTML
384 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
385 * Better metadata handling and reading
387 Linux/Windows interface:
388 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
389 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
390 * Recently played items list
391 * Interface toolbar customizations
392 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
395 - Improvements on many dialogs
396 - New dialog for plugins listing
397 - Fixed-size mode for videos
398 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
399 * Better integration in GTK environments
402 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
403 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
404 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
405 * Additional usability improvements
408 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
409 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
410 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
411 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
412 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
415 * New Maemo port with:
416 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
417 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
420 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
423 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
424 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
425 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
426 * Support for latest iSight models
429 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
430 * Surround support for PulseAudio
433 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
434 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
435 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
436 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
437 The old image video output has been removed.
438 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
439 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
442 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
450 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
451 --------------------------------------
457 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
458 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
459 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
460 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
461 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
462 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
463 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
465 Various fixes to the following modules:
468 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
469 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
472 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
477 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
478 ---------------------------------
481 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
482 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
485 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
486 ---------------------------------
489 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
492 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
495 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
496 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
497 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
498 main controller window.
499 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
502 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
507 * Updates of other localizations
510 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
511 * Lots of small bugfixes.
512 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
513 * Telnet fixes on Windows
514 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
517 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
518 ---------------------------------
521 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
523 Bunch of small bugfixes.
526 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
527 --------------------------------
532 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
533 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
536 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
537 --------------------------------
539 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
540 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
543 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
546 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
547 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
550 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
551 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
554 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
555 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
556 * Various fixed in playlist
559 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
562 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
565 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
566 ------------------------------------
568 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
569 * Fixes several memory leaks.
572 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
573 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
574 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
577 * Stability fix for the video output.
580 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
581 --------------------------------
584 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
585 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
586 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
587 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
588 * Fixed update system bugs
589 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
592 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
593 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
594 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
595 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
596 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
597 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
598 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
599 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
600 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
601 modern Mac OS X versions
604 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
605 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
607 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
608 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
611 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
612 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
613 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
614 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
615 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
616 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
619 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
620 --------------------------------
622 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
623 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
627 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
628 --------------------------------
630 * Multiple bug fixes.
633 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
634 ---------------------------------
638 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
639 recent to work correctly
640 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
641 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
642 edit the ".hosts" file.
643 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
644 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
645 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
646 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
647 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
648 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
649 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
650 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
651 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
652 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
653 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
654 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
655 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
656 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
657 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
658 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
659 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
660 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
661 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
662 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
663 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
664 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
665 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
666 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
667 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
668 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
669 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
670 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
671 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
672 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
673 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
674 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
675 and postproc modules.
676 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
677 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
678 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
679 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
681 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
683 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
684 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
686 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
687 * Glide video output module has been removed.
693 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
695 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
696 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
699 * Vastly improved playlist support:
700 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
702 * Shoutcast TV listings
703 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
705 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
706 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
708 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
711 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
712 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
713 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
714 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
715 * JACK audio input support
716 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
717 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
718 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
719 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
720 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
721 * Experimental EyeTV access module
722 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
723 (available as a separate download).
724 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
726 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
727 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
728 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
730 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
731 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
734 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
735 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
736 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
737 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
739 * APEv1/2 tags support
740 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
741 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
743 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
744 * TiVo Series 2 support
745 * CD+G karaoke Files support
750 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
751 * Flash Screen Video support
752 * CamStudio Screen Video support
753 * DosBox Capture support
754 * Karl Morton's Video support
755 * limited atrac3 support
757 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
758 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
759 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
761 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
762 * NellyMoser ASAO support
763 * APE (Monkey audio) support
764 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
765 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
768 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
769 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
770 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
771 * AQTitle subtitles support
772 * MKV USF subtitles support
773 * HTML-based subtitles support
774 * MPSub subtitles support
775 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
776 * MPL2 subtitles support
777 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
778 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
779 * Realtext subtitle support
780 * DKS subtitle support
781 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
782 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
785 * Flash Screen Video support
786 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
788 Video outputs and filters:
789 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
790 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
791 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
792 * New puzzle video output filter
793 * Re-written motion detection video filter
794 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
796 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
797 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
798 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
799 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
800 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
801 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
802 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
803 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
804 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
805 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
806 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
807 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
808 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
809 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
811 Audio outputs and filters:
812 * Replay gain support
813 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
814 new scaletempo audio filter)
815 * New spatializer audio filter
816 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
819 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
820 * New RTP payload formats:
821 * Speex voice audio codec
822 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
823 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
824 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
825 * DCCP transport for RTP
826 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
831 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
832 end-user suitable way.
833 * Improved user interaction
834 * Improved mouse gestures
835 * Vastly improved Update checker
836 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
838 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
839 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
841 * Improved video output features
842 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
843 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
844 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
845 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
846 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
848 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
849 if libncursesw is available.
850 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
851 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
852 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
854 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
855 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
856 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
857 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
858 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
859 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
860 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
861 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
864 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
865 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
866 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
869 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
870 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
871 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
872 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
873 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
874 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
877 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
878 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
888 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
889 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
890 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
893 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
894 ----------------------------------
897 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
900 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
901 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
902 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
903 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
904 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
905 * Updated Polish translation
908 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
909 ----------------------------------
912 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
913 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
914 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
917 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
918 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
919 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
920 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
921 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
922 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
923 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
924 to an unexpected application termination
925 * New Serbian translation
926 * Updated Romanian translation
929 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
930 ----------------------------------
933 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
934 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
935 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
936 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
937 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
938 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
939 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
940 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
943 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
944 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
945 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
946 * Fixed AAC resampling
947 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
948 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
951 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
952 ----------------------------------
955 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
956 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
957 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
958 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
959 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
962 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
963 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
964 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
965 * Close MMS access on network timeout
966 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
969 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
970 ----------------------------------
973 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
974 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
977 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
978 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
979 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
980 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
982 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
986 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
989 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
992 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
995 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
998 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
999 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1000 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1001 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1002 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1004 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1005 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1006 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1007 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1010 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1013 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1014 ----------------------------------
1017 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1018 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1019 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1021 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1022 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1024 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1025 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1028 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1030 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1031 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1032 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1033 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1034 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1035 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1036 two different movies
1037 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1038 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1039 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1042 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1045 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1046 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1047 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1048 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1051 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1052 ----------------------------------
1054 Various bugfixes, notably:
1055 * Windows Vista compatibility
1056 * Cropping in Direct3D
1057 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1058 * RSS filter string overflow
1060 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1062 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1063 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1066 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1067 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1070 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1073 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1076 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1079 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1080 ----------------------------------
1082 Various bugfixes, notably:
1083 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1084 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1085 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1086 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1087 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1088 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1091 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1092 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1095 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1097 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1098 * Diverse usability improvements
1099 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1100 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1101 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1104 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1105 ---------------------------------
1107 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1108 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1111 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1114 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1121 * Support for RTSP authentication
1122 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1123 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1124 * ATSC support for DVB input
1125 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1126 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1127 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1130 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1131 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1132 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1133 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1134 * Matroska WavPack support
1135 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1136 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1137 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1140 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1141 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1142 * Improved libcaca support
1146 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1147 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1149 * Systray support in skins
1151 * Support for Apple Remote control
1152 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1153 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1154 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1155 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1157 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1160 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1161 Windows 9x/ME users:
1162 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1163 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1164 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1165 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1166 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1168 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1169 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1178 * Updates to the libvlc API
1179 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1182 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1187 * Support for downloading updates
1191 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1192 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1193 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1194 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1196 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1197 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1198 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1201 * Cook (Real audio) support
1203 Playlist / Services discovery:
1204 * XSPF playlist support
1206 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1209 * New JACK audio output
1212 * New video filters:
1213 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1214 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1215 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1216 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1217 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1218 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1221 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1224 * System to inform the user and request information
1225 - HTTP authentication
1229 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1230 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1231 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1234 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1235 - Improved playlist handling
1236 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1238 - Embedded Video output
1239 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1240 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1241 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1242 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1243 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1245 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1246 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1249 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1252 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1253 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1254 * Growl "Now playing" support
1257 * Ability to log to syslog
1258 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1261 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1263 * A bit more automatic testing
1266 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1267 ---------------------------------
1270 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1271 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1274 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1275 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1278 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1281 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1282 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1288 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1291 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1292 --------------------------------
1295 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1299 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1300 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1301 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1304 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1305 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1306 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1307 * GnomeVFS input module
1308 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1309 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1312 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1313 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1314 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1317 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1318 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1324 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1325 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1328 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1329 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1330 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1333 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1335 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1336 - New extended controls panel
1337 - New bookmarks window
1338 - Fixed playlist sorting
1339 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1341 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1342 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1343 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1344 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1348 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1349 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1351 - Include macro to include other files
1355 * Should now work outside IE as well
1358 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1361 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1362 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1365 The following languages were added:
1369 * Simplified Chinese
1370 The following languages were re-added:
1374 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1375 --------------------------------
1378 * Rewrite of the playlist
1380 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1381 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1382 * Preferences improvements:
1383 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1384 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1386 * Core image manipulation support
1387 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1388 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1389 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1390 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1391 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1392 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1393 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1394 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1395 * Access filter architecture
1396 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1397 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1401 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1402 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1403 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1404 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1405 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1406 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1407 * Massive Matroska improvements
1408 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1410 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1411 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1412 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1413 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1414 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1416 Decoders / Encoders:
1417 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1418 * PNG decoder/encoder
1419 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1420 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1423 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1426 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1427 * Brand new SAP module
1428 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1429 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1430 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1431 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1432 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1433 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1437 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1440 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1441 * Image file video output (png)
1442 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1443 * Improvements to wall video filter
1444 * Support for font color and opacity
1450 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1451 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1452 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1456 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1457 - Improved preferences
1458 - Improvements to the wizard
1459 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1461 - Redesigned playlist
1462 - Improved preferences
1464 - Support for multiple actions
1467 - Support for the new playlist system
1469 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1472 * Screensaver disabling fix
1473 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1474 * Support for no-decoration windows
1477 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1478 * The OpenGL video output is back
1479 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1480 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1481 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1482 is not yet available in the new module
1483 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1486 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1495 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1498 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1501 The following languages were added:
1507 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1508 --------------------------------
1511 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1512 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1515 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1516 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1517 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1520 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1523 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1526 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1529 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1530 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1531 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1535 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1537 * Support of playlist group announcement
1540 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1541 --------------------------------
1544 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1545 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1546 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1547 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1548 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1549 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1552 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1553 (Stream your desktop)
1554 * Improved DVD support:
1555 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1556 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1557 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1558 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1559 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1560 (selection of titles/chapters).
1563 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1564 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1565 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1566 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1567 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1568 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1569 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1570 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1571 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1572 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1575 * G.726 audio support
1576 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1577 * MPEG-4 text support
1578 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1579 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1580 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1584 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1585 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1586 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1587 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1588 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1589 * DVB subtitles encoder
1590 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1591 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1593 * Text track muxing for mp4
1594 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1595 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1596 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1597 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1598 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1599 * Improved ASF muxer
1601 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1602 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1603 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1606 * New audio equalizer filter
1607 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1608 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1609 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1610 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1613 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1614 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1615 with support for effects.
1616 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1617 - New filters can be streamed.
1618 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1619 - Centralized scaling and blending
1621 - "time", to display current time
1622 - "marq", to display a marquee
1625 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1626 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1627 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1628 * A few skins2 improvements
1629 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1630 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1631 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1632 * Improved CORBA control module
1635 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1636 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1637 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1640 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1641 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1642 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1645 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1646 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1647 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1648 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1649 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1652 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1655 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1656 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1659 * Server/client network synchronization module
1660 * VBrick streams fully supported
1661 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1665 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1666 --------------------------------
1669 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1670 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1671 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1672 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1675 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1676 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1677 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1678 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1679 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1680 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1681 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1684 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1685 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1686 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1687 * Improved directory access module.
1688 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1689 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1690 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1691 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1692 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1695 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1696 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1697 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1700 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1701 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1702 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1705 * Improved session announcement system.
1706 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1707 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1708 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1709 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1710 * Improved transrater.
1711 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1712 * New configuration system.
1713 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1716 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1717 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1718 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1719 * Supports scheduling.
1720 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1721 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1724 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1725 - Ability to embed video output.
1726 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1727 - Lots of improvements.
1728 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1729 - New design and set of icons.
1730 - Ability to embed video output.
1731 - Support for hotkeys.
1732 - Support for bookmarks.
1734 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1735 - Better hotkeys handling.
1738 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1739 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1740 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1741 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1744 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1745 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1746 * Improved Windows installer.
1752 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1753 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1756 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1757 ---------------------------------
1760 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1761 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1764 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1765 --------------------------------
1768 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1769 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1772 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1773 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1774 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1775 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1778 * Internal improvments
1779 * Improved import/export
1782 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1784 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1785 small and strange formats.
1787 * New MOD audio demux.
1788 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1789 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1790 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1791 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1794 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1795 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1796 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1802 * New opengl video output plugin.
1805 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1806 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1809 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1810 --------------------------------
1813 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1814 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1815 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1816 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1817 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1818 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1819 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1820 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1823 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1828 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1829 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1830 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1831 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1832 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1833 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1834 * Better Icecast support.
1835 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1836 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1839 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1840 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1841 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1842 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1843 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1844 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1845 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1848 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1849 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1850 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1851 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1852 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1853 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1854 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1855 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1856 * Preliminary RTP support.
1857 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1862 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1863 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1865 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1866 - Improvements and help in preferences
1867 - New streaming wizard
1868 - Revised Disc Open menu
1870 - Improvements of the standard pages
1871 - Support for new commands
1872 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1875 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1876 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1879 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1880 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1881 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1882 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1883 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1884 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1885 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1886 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1887 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1890 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1892 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1893 * Support for Panther.
1894 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1895 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1898 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1899 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1900 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1901 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1902 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1903 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1904 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1905 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1908 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1909 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1910 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1913 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1916 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1917 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1918 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1919 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1922 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1923 --------------------------------
1926 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1929 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1930 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1933 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1934 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1937 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1940 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1941 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1944 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1947 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1950 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1951 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1955 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1956 --------------------------------
1959 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1960 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1964 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1965 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1966 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1968 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1969 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1972 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1975 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1978 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1979 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1983 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1984 --------------------------------
1987 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1988 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1992 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1993 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1994 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1995 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1996 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1999 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2000 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2001 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2004 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2005 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2006 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2009 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2010 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2011 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2012 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2013 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2016 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2017 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2018 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2021 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2024 * Improved build system.
2025 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2026 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2027 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2028 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2031 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2032 --------------------------------
2035 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2038 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2039 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2040 * Video 4 Linux support
2041 * CD Digital Audio support
2042 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2045 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2046 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2047 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2048 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2051 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2052 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2053 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2054 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2055 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2056 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2057 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2060 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2061 * New HTTP remote control interface
2064 * 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.
2065 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2066 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2067 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2070 * New reset option for the preferences
2071 * You can set your language in the prefences
2072 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2073 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2074 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2075 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2078 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2079 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2080 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2083 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2084 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2085 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2086 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2087 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2088 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2089 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2090 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2091 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2092 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2095 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2096 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2097 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2098 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2099 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2100 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2101 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2104 * Interface localization
2105 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2106 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2107 * New full-featured Preferences window
2110 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2111 --------------------------------
2114 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2115 * support for skins at the interface level
2116 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2117 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2118 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2119 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2120 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2123 * fixed HTTP redirects
2124 * support for opening an entire directory
2125 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2126 * new video4linux access plug-in
2127 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2130 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2131 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2132 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2135 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2136 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2137 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2138 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2139 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2140 * new codec for raw I420 video
2141 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2144 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2145 (although it still misses some important features)
2146 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2149 * new HTTP output support
2150 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2151 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2154 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2157 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2160 * reorderable playlist
2161 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2162 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2163 * support for mono audio output devices
2164 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2165 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2166 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2167 * the messages window remembers more lines
2168 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2169 * http and ogg stream output options
2170 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2173 * new skinnable interface
2174 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2176 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2177 * support for FLAC audio format
2178 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2180 * network tab in the interface
2181 * "apply" handling in preferences
2184 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2185 ---------------------------------
2188 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2189 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2190 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2191 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2193 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2194 * DTS S/PDIF support
2197 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2198 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2199 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2200 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2203 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2204 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2207 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2210 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2213 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2215 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2216 * rc interface is now fully useable
2217 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2220 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2221 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2222 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2223 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2224 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2226 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2227 * support for mouse gestures
2228 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2231 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2232 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2235 * improved ID3 tag detection
2236 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2237 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2238 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2240 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2243 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2244 ---------------------------------
2247 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2248 English was set as the preferred language
2251 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2252 --------------------------------
2255 * new mouse gesture interface
2256 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2260 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2261 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2262 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2265 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2266 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2270 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2273 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2274 without the user consent
2277 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2279 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2280 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2281 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2284 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2285 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2286 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2287 * playlist enhancements
2288 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2289 * new step forward/step backward commands
2290 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2291 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2292 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2295 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2296 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2297 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2300 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2301 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2304 * native video output is working again
2305 * only commandline interface support
2306 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2309 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2310 --------------------------------
2313 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2314 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2315 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2316 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2317 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2318 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2319 and A/52 streams are supported)
2320 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2325 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2326 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2327 * VCD entry points support
2328 * VCD image file support
2331 * support for *.asf format
2332 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2333 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2334 * support for ogg encapsulation
2335 * support for raw DV format
2336 * support for *.wav format
2337 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2340 Stream discovery & playlists:
2341 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2342 * support for .m3u file format
2343 * support for .asx file format
2344 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2347 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2348 (only available with the .avi demux)
2349 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2350 * support for raw PCM data
2351 * support for Cinepak video codec
2352 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2353 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2354 * support for Xvid codec
2355 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2356 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2357 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2359 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2361 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2364 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2367 * new WxWindows interface
2368 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2369 device and the channels configuration
2370 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2371 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2372 format that VLC can play
2373 * new swedish translation
2374 * enhancements of the playlist window
2375 * new messages window to see debug info
2376 * fixed a few crashes
2379 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2380 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2381 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2382 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working