1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-pre1:
2 --------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * Timeshift for most medias
14 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
19 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
22 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
23 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
24 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
25 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
28 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
29 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
30 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
33 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
34 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
37 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
38 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
39 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
40 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
41 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
42 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
43 * DVB scanning on linux
44 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
45 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
46 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
47 * MTP device access on Unix
48 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
51 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
52 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
56 * Export the playlist in HTML
57 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
58 * Better metadata handling and reading
60 Linux/Windows interface:
61 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
62 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
63 * Recently played items list
64 * Interface toolbar customizations
65 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
68 - Improvements on many dialogs
69 - New dialog for plugins listing
70 - Fixed-size mode for videos
71 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
72 * Better integration in GTK environments
75 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
76 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
77 * Additional usability improvements
80 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
81 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
82 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
83 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
86 * New Maemo port with:
87 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
88 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
91 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
94 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
95 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
98 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
99 * Surround support for PulseAudio
102 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
103 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
104 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
107 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
109 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
110 ---------------------------------
113 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
115 Bunch of small bugfixes.
118 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
119 --------------------------------
124 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
125 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
128 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
129 --------------------------------
131 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
132 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
135 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
138 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
139 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
142 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
143 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
146 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
147 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
148 * Various fixed in playlist
151 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
154 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
157 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
158 ------------------------------------
160 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
161 * Fixes several memory leaks.
164 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
165 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
166 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
169 * Stability fix for the video output.
172 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
173 --------------------------------
176 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
177 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
178 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
179 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
180 * Fixed update system bugs
181 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
184 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
185 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
186 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
187 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
188 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
189 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
190 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
191 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
192 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
193 modern Mac OS X versions
196 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
197 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
199 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
200 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
203 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
204 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
205 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
206 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
207 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
208 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
211 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
212 --------------------------------
214 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
215 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
219 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
220 --------------------------------
222 * Multiple bug fixes.
225 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
226 ---------------------------------
230 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
231 recent to work correctly
232 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
233 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
234 edit the ".hosts" file.
235 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
236 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
237 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
238 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
239 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
240 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
241 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
242 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
243 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
244 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
245 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
246 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
247 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
248 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
249 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
250 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
251 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
252 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
253 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
254 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
255 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
256 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
257 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
258 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
259 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
260 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
261 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
262 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
263 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
264 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
265 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
266 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
267 and postproc modules.
268 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
269 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
270 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
271 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
273 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
275 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
276 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
278 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
279 * Glide video output module has been removed.
285 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
287 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
288 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
291 * Vastly improved playlist support:
292 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
294 * Shoutcast TV listings
295 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
297 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
298 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
300 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
303 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
304 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
305 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
306 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
307 * JACK audio input support
308 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
309 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
310 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
311 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
312 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
313 * Experimental EyeTV access module
314 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
315 (available as a separate download).
316 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
318 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
319 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
320 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
322 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
323 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
326 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
327 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
328 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
329 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
331 * APEv1/2 tags support
332 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
333 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
335 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
336 * TiVo Series 2 support
337 * CD+G karaoke Files support
342 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
343 * Flash Screen Video support
344 * CamStudio Screen Video support
345 * DosBox Capture support
346 * Karl Morton's Video support
347 * limited atrac3 support
349 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
350 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
351 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
353 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
354 * NellyMoser ASAO support
355 * APE (Monkey audio) support
356 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
357 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
360 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
361 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
362 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
363 * AQTitle subtitles support
364 * MKV USF subtitles support
365 * HTML-based subtitles support
366 * MPSub subtitles support
367 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
368 * MPL2 subtitles support
369 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
370 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
371 * Realtext subtitle support
372 * DKS subtitle support
373 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
374 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
377 * Flash Screen Video support
378 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
380 Video outputs and filters:
381 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
382 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
383 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
384 * New puzzle video output filter
385 * Re-written motion detection video filter
386 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
388 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
389 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
390 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
391 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
392 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
393 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
394 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
395 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
396 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
397 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
398 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
399 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
400 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
401 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
403 Audio outputs and filters:
404 * Replay gain support
405 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
406 new scaletempo audio filter)
407 * New spatializer audio filter
408 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
411 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
412 * New RTP payload formats:
413 * Speex voice audio codec
414 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
415 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
416 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
417 * DCCP transport for RTP
418 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
423 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
424 end-user suitable way.
425 * Improved user interaction
426 * Improved mouse gestures
427 * Vastly improved Update checker
428 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
430 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
431 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
433 * Improved video output features
434 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
435 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
436 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
437 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
438 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
440 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
441 if libncursesw is available.
442 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
443 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
444 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
446 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
447 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
448 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
449 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
450 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
451 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
452 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
453 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
456 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
457 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
458 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
461 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
462 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
463 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
464 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
465 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
466 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
469 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
470 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
480 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
481 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
482 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
485 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
486 ----------------------------------
489 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
492 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
493 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
494 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
495 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
496 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
497 * Updated Polish translation
500 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
501 ----------------------------------
504 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
505 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
506 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
509 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
510 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
511 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
512 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
513 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
514 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
515 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
516 to an unexpected application termination
517 * New Serbian translation
518 * Updated Romanian translation
521 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
522 ----------------------------------
525 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
526 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
527 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
528 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
529 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
530 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
531 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
532 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
535 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
536 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
537 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
538 * Fixed AAC resampling
539 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
540 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
543 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
544 ----------------------------------
547 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
548 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
549 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
550 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
551 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
554 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
555 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
556 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
557 * Close MMS access on network timeout
558 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
561 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
562 ----------------------------------
565 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
566 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
569 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
570 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
571 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
572 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
574 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
578 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
581 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
584 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
587 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
590 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
591 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
592 encoding on multi-cpu systems
593 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
594 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
596 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
597 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
598 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
599 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
602 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
605 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
606 ----------------------------------
609 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
610 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
611 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
613 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
614 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
616 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
617 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
620 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
622 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
623 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
624 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
625 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
626 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
627 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
629 * Support for current Ogg file formats
630 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
631 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
634 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
637 * The automatic updating facility was removed
638 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
639 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
640 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
643 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
644 ----------------------------------
646 Various bugfixes, notably:
647 * Windows Vista compatibility
648 * Cropping in Direct3D
649 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
650 * RSS filter string overflow
652 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
654 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
655 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
658 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
659 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
662 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
665 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
668 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
671 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
672 ----------------------------------
674 Various bugfixes, notably:
675 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
676 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
677 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
678 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
679 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
680 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
683 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
684 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
687 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
689 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
690 * Diverse usability improvements
691 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
692 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
693 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
696 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
697 ---------------------------------
700 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
703 * Fullscreen controller improvements
706 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
707 --------------------------------
710 * Shoutcast TV listings support
713 * Support for RTSP authentication
714 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
715 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
716 * ATSC support for DVB input
717 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
718 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
719 * Improved support for Flash Video files
722 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
723 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
724 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
725 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
726 * Matroska WavPack support
727 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
728 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
729 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
732 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
733 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
734 * Improved libcaca support
738 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
739 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
741 * Systray support in skins
743 * Support for Apple Remote control
744 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
745 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
746 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
747 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
749 * Notifications using notification-daemon
752 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
754 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
755 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
756 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
757 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
758 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
760 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
761 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
770 * Updates to the libvlc API
771 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
774 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
775 --------------------------------
778 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
779 * Support for downloading updates
783 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
784 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
785 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
786 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
788 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
789 * Improved subtitles encoding support
790 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
793 * Cook (Real audio) support
795 Playlist / Services discovery:
796 * XSPF playlist support
798 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
801 * New JACK audio output
805 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
806 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
807 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
808 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
809 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
810 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
813 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
816 * System to inform the user and request information
817 - HTTP authentication
821 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
822 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
823 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
826 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
827 - Improved playlist handling
828 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
830 - Embedded Video output
831 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
832 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
833 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
834 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
835 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
837 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
838 - A bunch of new RPN functions
841 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
844 * Mac-Intel compatibility
845 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
846 * Growl "Now playing" support
849 * Ability to log to syslog
850 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
853 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
855 * A bit more automatic testing
858 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
859 ---------------------------------
862 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
863 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
866 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
867 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
870 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
873 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
874 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
880 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
883 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
884 --------------------------------
887 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
891 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
892 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
893 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
896 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
897 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
898 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
899 * GnomeVFS input module
900 * Support for RTP packet reordering
901 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
904 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
905 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
906 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
909 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
910 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
916 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
917 Mixer and Dolby Surround
920 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
921 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
922 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
925 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
927 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
928 - New extended controls panel
929 - New bookmarks window
930 - Fixed playlist sorting
931 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
933 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
934 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
935 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
936 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
940 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
941 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
943 - Include macro to include other files
947 * Should now work outside IE as well
950 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
953 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
954 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
957 The following languages were added:
962 The following languages were re-added:
966 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
967 --------------------------------
970 * Rewrite of the playlist
972 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
973 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
974 * Preferences improvements:
975 - New organization, designed to improve usability
976 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
978 * Core image manipulation support
979 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
980 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
981 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
982 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
983 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
984 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
985 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
986 now separated by ':' instead of ','
987 * Access filter architecture
988 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
989 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
993 * Support for SOCKS proxy
994 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
995 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
996 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
997 * Better support for Kasenna streams
998 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
999 * Massive Matroska improvements
1000 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1002 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1003 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1004 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1005 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1006 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1008 Decoders / Encoders:
1009 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1010 * PNG decoder/encoder
1011 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1012 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1015 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1018 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1019 * Brand new SAP module
1020 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1021 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1022 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1023 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1024 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1025 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1029 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1032 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1033 * Image file video output (png)
1034 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1035 * Improvements to wall video filter
1036 * Support for font color and opacity
1042 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1043 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1044 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1048 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1049 - Improved preferences
1050 - Improvements to the wizard
1051 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1053 - Redesigned playlist
1054 - Improved preferences
1056 - Support for multiple actions
1059 - Support for the new playlist system
1061 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1064 * Screensaver disabling fix
1065 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1066 * Support for no-decoration windows
1069 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1070 * The OpenGL video output is back
1071 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1072 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1073 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1074 is not yet available in the new module
1075 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1078 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1087 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1090 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1093 The following languages were added:
1099 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1100 --------------------------------
1103 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1104 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1107 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1108 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1109 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1112 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1115 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1118 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1121 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1122 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1123 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1127 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1129 * Support of playlist group announcement
1132 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1137 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1138 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1139 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1140 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1141 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1144 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1145 (Stream your desktop)
1146 * Improved DVD support:
1147 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1148 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1149 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1150 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1151 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1152 (selection of titles/chapters).
1155 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1156 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1157 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1158 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1159 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1160 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1161 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1162 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1163 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1164 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1167 * G.726 audio support
1168 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1169 * MPEG-4 text support
1170 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1171 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1172 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1176 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1177 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1178 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1179 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1180 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1181 * DVB subtitles encoder
1182 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1183 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1185 * Text track muxing for mp4
1186 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1187 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1188 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1189 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1190 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1191 * Improved ASF muxer
1193 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1194 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1195 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1198 * New audio equalizer filter
1199 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1200 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1201 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1202 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1205 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1206 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1207 with support for effects.
1208 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1209 - New filters can be streamed.
1210 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1211 - Centralized scaling and blending
1213 - "time", to display current time
1214 - "marq", to display a marquee
1217 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1218 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1219 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1220 * A few skins2 improvements
1221 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1222 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1223 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1224 * Improved CORBA control module
1227 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1228 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1229 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1232 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1233 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1234 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1237 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1238 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1239 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1240 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1241 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1244 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1247 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1248 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1251 * Server/client network synchronization module
1252 * VBrick streams fully supported
1253 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1257 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1258 --------------------------------
1261 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1262 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1263 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1264 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1267 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1268 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1269 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1270 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1271 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1272 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1273 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1276 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1277 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1278 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1279 * Improved directory access module.
1280 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1281 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1282 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1283 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1284 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1287 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1288 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1289 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1292 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1293 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1294 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1297 * Improved session announcement system.
1298 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1299 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1300 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1301 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1302 * Improved transrater.
1303 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1304 * New configuration system.
1305 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1308 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1309 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1310 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1311 * Supports scheduling.
1312 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1313 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1316 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1317 - Ability to embed video output.
1318 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1319 - Lots of improvements.
1320 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1321 - New design and set of icons.
1322 - Ability to embed video output.
1323 - Support for hotkeys.
1324 - Support for bookmarks.
1326 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1327 - Better hotkeys handling.
1330 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1331 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1332 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1333 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1336 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1337 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1338 * Improved Windows installer.
1344 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1345 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1348 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1349 ---------------------------------
1352 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1353 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1356 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1361 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1364 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1365 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1366 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1367 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1370 * Internal improvments
1371 * Improved import/export
1374 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1376 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1377 small and strange formats.
1379 * New MOD audio demux.
1380 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1381 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1382 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1383 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1386 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1387 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1388 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1394 * New opengl video output plugin.
1397 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1398 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1401 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1402 --------------------------------
1405 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1406 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1407 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1408 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1409 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1410 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1411 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1412 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1415 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1420 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1421 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1422 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1423 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1424 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1425 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1426 * Better Icecast support.
1427 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1428 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1431 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1432 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1433 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1434 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1435 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1436 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1437 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1440 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1441 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1442 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1443 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1444 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1445 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1446 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1447 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1448 * Preliminary RTP support.
1449 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1454 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1455 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1457 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1458 - Improvements and help in preferences
1459 - New streaming wizard
1460 - Revised Disc Open menu
1462 - Improvements of the standard pages
1463 - Support for new commands
1464 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1467 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1468 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1471 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1472 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1473 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1474 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1475 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1476 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1477 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1478 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1479 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1482 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1484 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1485 * Support for Panther.
1486 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1487 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1490 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1491 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1492 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1493 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1494 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1495 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1496 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1497 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1500 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1501 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1502 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1505 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1508 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1509 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1510 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1511 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1514 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1515 --------------------------------
1518 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1521 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1522 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1525 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1526 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1529 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1532 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1533 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1536 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1539 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1542 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1543 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1547 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1548 --------------------------------
1551 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1552 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1556 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1557 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1558 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1560 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1561 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1564 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1567 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1570 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1571 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1575 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1576 --------------------------------
1579 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1580 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1584 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1585 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1586 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1587 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1588 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1591 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1592 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1593 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1596 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1597 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1598 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1601 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1602 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1603 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1604 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1605 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1608 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1609 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1610 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1613 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1616 * Improved build system.
1617 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1618 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1619 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1620 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1623 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1624 --------------------------------
1627 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1630 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1631 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1632 * Video 4 Linux support
1633 * CD Digital Audio support
1634 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1637 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1638 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1639 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1640 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1643 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1644 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1645 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1646 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1647 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1648 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1649 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1652 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1653 * New HTTP remote control interface
1656 * 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.
1657 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1658 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1659 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1662 * New reset option for the preferences
1663 * You can set your language in the prefences
1664 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1665 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1666 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1667 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1670 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1671 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1672 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1675 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1676 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1677 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1678 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1679 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1680 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1681 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1682 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1683 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1684 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1687 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1688 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1689 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1690 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1691 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1692 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1693 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1696 * Interface localization
1697 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1698 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1699 * New full-featured Preferences window
1702 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1703 --------------------------------
1706 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1707 * support for skins at the interface level
1708 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1709 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1710 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1711 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1712 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1715 * fixed HTTP redirects
1716 * support for opening an entire directory
1717 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1718 * new video4linux access plug-in
1719 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1722 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1723 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1724 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1727 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1728 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1729 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1730 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1731 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1732 * new codec for raw I420 video
1733 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1736 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1737 (although it still misses some important features)
1738 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1741 * new HTTP output support
1742 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1743 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1746 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1749 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1752 * reorderable playlist
1753 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1754 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1755 * support for mono audio output devices
1756 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1757 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1758 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1759 * the messages window remembers more lines
1760 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1761 * http and ogg stream output options
1762 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1765 * new skinnable interface
1766 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1768 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1769 * support for FLAC audio format
1770 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1772 * network tab in the interface
1773 * "apply" handling in preferences
1776 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1777 ---------------------------------
1780 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1781 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1782 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1783 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1785 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1786 * DTS S/PDIF support
1789 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1790 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1791 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1792 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1795 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1796 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1799 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1802 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1805 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1807 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1808 * rc interface is now fully useable
1809 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1812 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1813 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1814 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1815 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1816 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1818 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1819 * support for mouse gestures
1820 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1823 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1824 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1827 * improved ID3 tag detection
1828 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1829 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1830 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1832 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1835 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1836 ---------------------------------
1839 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1840 English was set as the preferred language
1843 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1844 --------------------------------
1847 * new mouse gesture interface
1848 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1852 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1853 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1854 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1857 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1858 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1862 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1865 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1866 without the user consent
1869 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1871 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1872 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1873 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1876 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1877 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1878 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1879 * playlist enhancements
1880 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1881 * new step forward/step backward commands
1882 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1883 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1884 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1887 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1888 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1889 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1892 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1893 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1896 * native video output is working again
1897 * only commandline interface support
1898 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1901 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1902 --------------------------------
1905 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1906 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1907 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1908 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1909 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1910 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1911 and A/52 streams are supported)
1912 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1917 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1918 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1919 * VCD entry points support
1920 * VCD image file support
1923 * support for *.asf format
1924 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1925 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1926 * support for ogg encapsulation
1927 * support for raw DV format
1928 * support for *.wav format
1929 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1932 Stream discovery & playlists:
1933 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1934 * support for .m3u file format
1935 * support for .asx file format
1936 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1939 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1940 (only available with the .avi demux)
1941 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1942 * support for raw PCM data
1943 * support for Cinepak video codec
1944 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1945 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1946 * support for Xvid codec
1947 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1948 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1949 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1951 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1953 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1956 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1959 * new WxWindows interface
1960 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1961 device and the channels configuration
1962 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1963 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1964 format that VLC can play
1965 * new swedish translation
1966 * enhancements of the playlist window
1967 * new messages window to see debug info
1968 * fixed a few crashes
1971 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1972 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1973 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1974 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working