1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
17 * BlackMagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
20 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
23 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
24 * Ogg seeking improvements
27 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
28 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
29 * Qt: port to Mac platform
32 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
35 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
38 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
41 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
42 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
43 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
46 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
47 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
48 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
49 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
50 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
51 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
54 * New Armenian translation
57 * New capabilities for libVLC:
58 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
61 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
62 --------------------------------
65 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
67 * Fix folders opening from the interface
70 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
71 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
74 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
75 --------------------------------
78 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
79 * fix for podcasts parsing
80 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
83 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
84 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
87 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
88 * fix m3u playlists exports
91 * fix video autoresize behaviour
94 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
97 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
100 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
103 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
106 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
107 --------------------------------
110 * Avformat fps displaying fix
111 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
114 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
115 of mono streams, especially on Windows
118 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
119 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
120 * fix console output encoding
122 Interface and extensions:
123 * Youtube and other scripts updates
124 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
127 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
128 --------------------------------
131 * New capabilities for libVLC:
132 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
133 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
134 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
135 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
136 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
137 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
138 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
139 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
140 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
141 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
142 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
143 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
144 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
145 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
146 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
150 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
151 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
152 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
153 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
154 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
157 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
160 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
161 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
162 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
166 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
169 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
170 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
171 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
174 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
175 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
176 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
177 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
180 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
181 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
184 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
185 --------------------------------
187 Important changes for users:
188 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
189 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
191 Important changes for packagers:
192 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
193 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
194 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
195 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
196 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
198 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
200 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
201 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
202 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
203 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
204 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
207 * Support for the sftp protocol
208 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
209 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
210 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
211 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
212 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
215 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
216 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
217 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
219 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
220 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
221 * Invmem module improvements
222 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
223 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
224 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
225 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
226 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
227 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
228 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
229 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
230 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
231 * Support for VP8 codec
232 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
235 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
236 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
237 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
238 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
239 * Various EGP improvements
240 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
241 * Metadata and cover art improvements
244 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
245 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
246 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
247 * Podcast images are now displayed
250 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
251 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
252 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
253 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
254 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
255 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
256 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
257 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
258 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
259 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
260 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
263 * New content extensions lua framework
266 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
267 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
268 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
269 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
270 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
271 * NEON assembly audio converter module
272 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
275 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
276 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
277 * Service discovery based on libudev
278 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
281 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
282 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
283 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
284 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
285 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
286 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
287 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
290 * New smem module, streaming to memory
291 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
292 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
295 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
297 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
298 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
301 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
304 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
305 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
306 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
307 by Andy Matuschak et al.
308 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
309 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
310 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
313 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
314 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
317 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
318 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
319 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
323 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
324 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
325 * Improved Solaris port
328 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
329 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
332 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
333 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
334 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
335 * transrate: broken since too long
336 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
337 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
338 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
339 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
340 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
341 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
342 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
343 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
344 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
345 * cddax: use cdda instead.
346 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
347 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
348 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
349 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
352 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
358 Decoders/Packetizers:
359 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
362 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
363 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
364 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
365 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
366 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
369 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
370 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
373 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
374 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
377 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
378 and Walloon translations updated
379 * Sinhala translation started
382 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
383 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
386 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
387 --------------------------------
390 * SubRip extra styles improvements
391 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
394 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
397 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
398 increase performance and fix x264 issues
401 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
402 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
403 Russian, Slovak translation updates
404 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
407 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
408 --------------------------------
411 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
412 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
415 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
416 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
419 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
420 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
423 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
426 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
427 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
430 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
431 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
434 * New Walloon translation
435 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
438 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
439 --------------------------------
442 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
443 regressions in most popular drivers
444 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
447 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
448 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
449 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
452 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
453 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
456 * Update for appletrailers lua script
457 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
458 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
459 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
460 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
463 * New udev module for linux
466 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
469 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
472 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
473 --------------------------------
476 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
477 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
478 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
481 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
482 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
485 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
486 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
489 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
492 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
493 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
494 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
495 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
498 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
499 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
500 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
501 - no support for Goom and SDL
502 - limited text rendering support
503 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
506 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
507 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
508 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
509 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
510 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
511 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
512 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
513 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
514 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
518 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
521 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
524 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
525 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
526 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
527 Arabic and French translation updates
530 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
531 --------------------------------
534 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
535 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
536 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
537 * Fix Dailymotion access script
538 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
539 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
542 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
543 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
546 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
547 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
548 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
551 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
554 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
555 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
558 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
559 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
560 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
561 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
562 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
563 * Fix various crashes
566 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
568 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
571 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
572 ---------------------------------
576 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
577 See 'Access:' for more info.
578 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
581 * Instantaneous pausing
582 * Frame-by-Frame playback
583 * Finer speed control
584 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
585 * Timeshift for most medias
586 * RTSP trickplay support
587 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
590 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
591 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
592 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
593 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
594 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
595 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
596 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
597 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
598 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
599 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
602 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
603 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
604 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
605 * Metadata for mod files are supported
606 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
607 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
608 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
611 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
612 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
615 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
616 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
617 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
618 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
619 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
620 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
621 * DVB scanning on linux
622 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
623 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
624 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
625 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
626 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
627 * MTP device access on Unix
628 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
629 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
632 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
633 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
634 Windows and Mac OS X.
637 * Export the playlist in HTML
638 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
639 * Better metadata handling and reading
641 Linux/Windows interface:
642 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
643 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
644 * Recently played items list
645 * Interface toolbar customizations
646 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
649 - Improvements on many dialogs
650 - New dialog for plugins listing
651 - Fixed-size mode for videos
652 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
653 * Better integration in GTK environments
656 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
657 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
658 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
659 * Additional usability improvements
662 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
663 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
664 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
665 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
666 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
669 * New Maemo port with:
670 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
671 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
674 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
677 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
678 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
679 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
680 * Support for latest iSight models
683 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
684 * Surround support for PulseAudio
687 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
688 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
689 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
690 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
691 The old image video output has been removed.
692 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
693 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
696 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
704 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
705 --------------------------------------
711 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
712 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
713 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
714 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
715 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
716 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
717 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
719 Various fixes to the following modules:
722 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
723 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
726 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
731 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
732 ---------------------------------
735 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
736 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
739 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
740 ---------------------------------
743 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
746 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
749 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
750 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
751 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
752 main controller window.
753 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
756 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
761 * Updates of other localizations
764 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
765 * Lots of small bugfixes.
766 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
767 * Telnet fixes on Windows
768 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
771 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
772 ---------------------------------
775 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
777 Bunch of small bugfixes.
780 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
781 --------------------------------
786 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
787 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
790 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
791 --------------------------------
793 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
794 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
797 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
800 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
801 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
804 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
805 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
808 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
809 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
810 * Various fixed in playlist
813 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
816 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
819 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
820 ------------------------------------
822 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
823 * Fixes several memory leaks.
826 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
827 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
828 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
831 * Stability fix for the video output.
834 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
835 --------------------------------
838 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
839 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
840 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
841 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
842 * Fixed update system bugs
843 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
846 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
847 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
848 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
849 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
850 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
851 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
852 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
853 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
854 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
855 modern Mac OS X versions
858 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
859 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
861 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
862 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
865 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
866 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
867 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
868 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
869 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
870 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
873 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
874 --------------------------------
876 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
877 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
881 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
882 --------------------------------
884 * Multiple bug fixes.
887 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
888 ---------------------------------
892 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
893 recent to work correctly
894 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
895 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
896 edit the ".hosts" file.
897 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
898 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
899 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
900 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
901 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
902 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
903 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
904 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
905 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
906 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
907 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
908 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
909 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
910 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
911 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
912 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
913 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
914 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
915 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
916 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
917 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
918 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
919 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
920 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
921 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
922 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
923 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
924 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
925 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
926 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
927 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
928 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
929 and postproc modules.
930 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
931 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
932 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
933 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
935 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
937 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
938 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
940 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
941 * Glide video output module has been removed.
947 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
949 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
950 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
953 * Vastly improved playlist support:
954 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
956 * Shoutcast TV listings
957 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
959 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
960 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
962 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
965 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
966 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
967 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
968 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
969 * JACK audio input support
970 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
971 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
972 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
973 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
974 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
975 * Experimental EyeTV access module
976 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
977 (available as a separate download).
978 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
980 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
981 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
982 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
984 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
985 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
988 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
989 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
990 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
991 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
993 * APEv1/2 tags support
994 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
995 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
997 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
998 * TiVo Series 2 support
999 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1004 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1005 * Flash Screen Video support
1006 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1007 * DosBox Capture support
1008 * Karl Morton's Video support
1009 * limited atrac3 support
1011 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1012 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1013 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1014 * H.264 PAFF support
1015 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1016 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1017 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1018 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1019 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1022 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1023 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1024 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1025 * AQTitle subtitles support
1026 * MKV USF subtitles support
1027 * HTML-based subtitles support
1028 * MPSub subtitles support
1029 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1030 * MPL2 subtitles support
1031 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1032 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1033 * Realtext subtitle support
1034 * DKS subtitle support
1035 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1036 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1039 * Flash Screen Video support
1040 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1042 Video outputs and filters:
1043 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1044 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1045 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1046 * New puzzle video output filter
1047 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1048 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1050 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1051 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1052 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1053 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1054 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1055 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1056 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1057 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1058 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1059 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1060 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1061 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1062 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1063 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1065 Audio outputs and filters:
1066 * Replay gain support
1067 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1068 new scaletempo audio filter)
1069 * New spatializer audio filter
1070 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1073 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1074 * New RTP payload formats:
1075 * Speex voice audio codec
1076 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1077 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1078 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1079 * DCCP transport for RTP
1080 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1085 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1086 end-user suitable way.
1087 * Improved user interaction
1088 * Improved mouse gestures
1089 * Vastly improved Update checker
1090 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1092 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1093 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1095 * Improved video output features
1096 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1097 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1098 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1099 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1100 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1102 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1103 if libncursesw is available.
1104 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1105 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1106 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1108 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1109 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1110 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1111 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1112 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1113 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1114 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1115 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1118 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1119 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1120 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1123 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1124 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1125 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1126 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1127 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1128 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1131 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1132 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1142 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1143 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1144 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1147 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1148 ----------------------------------
1151 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1154 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1155 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1156 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1157 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1158 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1159 * Updated Polish translation
1162 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1163 ----------------------------------
1166 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1167 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1168 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1171 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1172 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1173 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1174 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1175 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1176 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1177 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1178 to an unexpected application termination
1179 * New Serbian translation
1180 * Updated Romanian translation
1183 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1184 ----------------------------------
1187 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1188 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1189 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1190 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1191 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1192 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1193 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1194 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1197 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1198 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1199 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1200 * Fixed AAC resampling
1201 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1202 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1205 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1206 ----------------------------------
1209 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1210 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1211 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1212 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1213 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1216 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1217 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1218 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1219 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1220 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1223 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1224 ----------------------------------
1227 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1228 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1231 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1232 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1233 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1234 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1236 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1240 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1243 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1246 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1249 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1252 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1253 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1254 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1255 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1256 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1258 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1259 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1260 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1261 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1264 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1267 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1268 ----------------------------------
1271 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1272 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1273 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1275 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1276 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1278 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1279 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1282 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1284 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1285 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1286 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1287 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1288 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1289 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1290 two different movies
1291 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1292 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1293 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1296 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1299 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1300 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1301 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1302 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1305 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1306 ----------------------------------
1308 Various bugfixes, notably:
1309 * Windows Vista compatibility
1310 * Cropping in Direct3D
1311 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1312 * RSS filter string overflow
1314 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1316 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1317 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1320 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1321 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1324 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1327 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1330 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1333 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1334 ----------------------------------
1336 Various bugfixes, notably:
1337 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1338 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1339 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1340 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1341 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1342 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1345 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1346 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1349 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1351 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1352 * Diverse usability improvements
1353 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1354 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1355 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1358 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1359 ---------------------------------
1361 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1362 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1365 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1368 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1369 --------------------------------
1372 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1375 * Support for RTSP authentication
1376 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1377 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1378 * ATSC support for DVB input
1379 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1380 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1381 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1384 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1385 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1386 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1387 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1388 * Matroska WavPack support
1389 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1390 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1391 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1394 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1395 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1396 * Improved libcaca support
1400 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1401 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1403 * Systray support in skins
1405 * Support for Apple Remote control
1406 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1407 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1408 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1409 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1411 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1414 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1415 Windows 9x/ME users:
1416 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1417 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1418 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1419 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1420 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1422 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1423 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1432 * Updates to the libvlc API
1433 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1436 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1437 --------------------------------
1440 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1441 * Support for downloading updates
1445 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1446 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1447 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1448 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1450 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1451 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1452 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1455 * Cook (Real audio) support
1457 Playlist / Services discovery:
1458 * XSPF playlist support
1460 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1463 * New JACK audio output
1466 * New video filters:
1467 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1468 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1469 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1470 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1471 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1472 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1475 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1478 * System to inform the user and request information
1479 - HTTP authentication
1483 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1484 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1485 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1488 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1489 - Improved playlist handling
1490 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1492 - Embedded Video output
1493 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1494 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1495 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1496 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1497 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1499 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1500 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1503 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1506 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1507 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1508 * Growl "Now playing" support
1511 * Ability to log to syslog
1512 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1515 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1517 * A bit more automatic testing
1520 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1521 ---------------------------------
1524 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1525 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1528 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1529 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1532 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1535 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1536 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1542 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1545 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1546 --------------------------------
1549 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1553 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1554 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1555 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1558 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1559 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1560 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1561 * GnomeVFS input module
1562 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1563 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1566 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1567 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1568 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1571 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1572 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1578 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1579 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1582 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1583 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1584 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1587 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1589 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1590 - New extended controls panel
1591 - New bookmarks window
1592 - Fixed playlist sorting
1593 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1595 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1596 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1597 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1598 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1602 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1603 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1605 - Include macro to include other files
1609 * Should now work outside IE as well
1612 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1615 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1616 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1619 The following languages were added:
1623 * Simplified Chinese
1624 The following languages were re-added:
1628 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1629 --------------------------------
1632 * Rewrite of the playlist
1634 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1635 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1636 * Preferences improvements:
1637 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1638 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1640 * Core image manipulation support
1641 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1642 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1643 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1644 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1645 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1646 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1647 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1648 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1649 * Access filter architecture
1650 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1651 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1655 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1656 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1657 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1658 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1659 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1660 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1661 * Massive Matroska improvements
1662 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1664 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1665 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1666 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1667 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1668 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1670 Decoders / Encoders:
1671 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1672 * PNG decoder/encoder
1673 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1674 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1677 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1680 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1681 * Brand new SAP module
1682 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1683 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1684 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1685 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1686 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1687 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1691 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1694 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1695 * Image file video output (png)
1696 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1697 * Improvements to wall video filter
1698 * Support for font color and opacity
1704 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1705 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1706 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1710 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1711 - Improved preferences
1712 - Improvements to the wizard
1713 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1715 - Redesigned playlist
1716 - Improved preferences
1718 - Support for multiple actions
1721 - Support for the new playlist system
1723 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1726 * Screensaver disabling fix
1727 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1728 * Support for no-decoration windows
1731 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1732 * The OpenGL video output is back
1733 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1734 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1735 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1736 is not yet available in the new module
1737 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1740 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1749 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1752 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1755 The following languages were added:
1761 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1762 --------------------------------
1765 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1766 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1769 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1770 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1771 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1774 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1777 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1780 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1783 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1784 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1785 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1789 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1791 * Support of playlist group announcement
1794 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1795 --------------------------------
1798 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1799 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1800 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1801 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1802 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1803 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1806 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1807 (Stream your desktop)
1808 * Improved DVD support:
1809 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1810 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1811 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1812 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1813 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1814 (selection of titles/chapters).
1817 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1818 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1819 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1820 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1821 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1822 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1823 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1824 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1825 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1826 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1829 * G.726 audio support
1830 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1831 * MPEG-4 text support
1832 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1833 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1834 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1838 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1839 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1840 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1841 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1842 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1843 * DVB subtitles encoder
1844 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1845 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1847 * Text track muxing for mp4
1848 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1849 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1850 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1851 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1852 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1853 * Improved ASF muxer
1855 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1856 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1857 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1860 * New audio equalizer filter
1861 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1862 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1863 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1864 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1867 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1868 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1869 with support for effects.
1870 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1871 - New filters can be streamed.
1872 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1873 - Centralized scaling and blending
1875 - "time", to display current time
1876 - "marq", to display a marquee
1879 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1880 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1881 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1882 * A few skins2 improvements
1883 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1884 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1885 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1886 * Improved CORBA control module
1889 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1890 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1891 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1894 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1895 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1896 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1899 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1900 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1901 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1902 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1903 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1906 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1909 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1910 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1913 * Server/client network synchronization module
1914 * VBrick streams fully supported
1915 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1919 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1920 --------------------------------
1923 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1924 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1925 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1926 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1929 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1930 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1931 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1932 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1933 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1934 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1935 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1938 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1939 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1940 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1941 * Improved directory access module.
1942 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1943 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1944 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1945 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1946 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1949 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1950 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1951 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1954 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1955 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1956 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1959 * Improved session announcement system.
1960 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1961 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1962 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1963 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1964 * Improved transrater.
1965 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1966 * New configuration system.
1967 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1970 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1971 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1972 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1973 * Supports scheduling.
1974 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1975 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1978 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1979 - Ability to embed video output.
1980 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1981 - Lots of improvements.
1982 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1983 - New design and set of icons.
1984 - Ability to embed video output.
1985 - Support for hotkeys.
1986 - Support for bookmarks.
1988 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1989 - Better hotkeys handling.
1992 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1993 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1994 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1995 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1998 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1999 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2000 * Improved Windows installer.
2006 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2007 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2010 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2011 ---------------------------------
2014 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2015 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2018 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2019 --------------------------------
2022 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2023 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2026 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2027 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2028 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2029 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2032 * Internal improvments
2033 * Improved import/export
2036 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2038 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2039 small and strange formats.
2041 * New MOD audio demux.
2042 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2043 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2044 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2045 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2048 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2049 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2050 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2056 * New opengl video output plugin.
2059 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2060 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2063 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2068 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2069 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2070 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2071 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2072 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2073 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2074 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2077 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2082 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2083 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2084 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2085 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2086 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2087 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2088 * Better Icecast support.
2089 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2090 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2093 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2094 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2095 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2096 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2097 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2098 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2099 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2102 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2103 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2104 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2105 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2106 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2107 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2108 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2109 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2110 * Preliminary RTP support.
2111 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2116 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2117 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2119 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2120 - Improvements and help in preferences
2121 - New streaming wizard
2122 - Revised Disc Open menu
2124 - Improvements of the standard pages
2125 - Support for new commands
2126 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2129 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2130 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2133 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2134 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2135 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2136 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2137 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2138 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2139 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2140 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2141 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2144 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2146 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2147 * Support for Panther.
2148 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2149 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2152 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2153 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2154 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2155 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2156 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2157 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2158 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2159 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2162 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2163 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2164 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2167 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2170 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2171 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2172 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2173 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2176 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2177 --------------------------------
2180 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2183 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2184 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2187 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2188 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2191 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2194 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2195 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2198 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2201 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2204 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2205 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2209 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2210 --------------------------------
2213 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2214 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2218 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2219 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2220 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2222 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2223 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2226 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2229 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2232 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2233 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2237 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2238 --------------------------------
2241 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2242 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2246 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2247 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2248 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2249 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2250 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2253 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2254 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2255 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2258 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2259 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2260 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2263 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2264 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2265 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2266 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2267 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2270 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2271 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2272 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2275 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2278 * Improved build system.
2279 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2280 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2281 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2282 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2285 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2286 --------------------------------
2289 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2292 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2293 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2294 * Video 4 Linux support
2295 * CD Digital Audio support
2296 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2299 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2300 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2301 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2302 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2305 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2306 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2307 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2308 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2309 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2310 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2311 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2314 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2315 * New HTTP remote control interface
2318 * 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.
2319 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2320 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2321 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2324 * New reset option for the preferences
2325 * You can set your language in the prefences
2326 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2327 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2328 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2329 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2332 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2333 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2334 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2337 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2338 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2339 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2340 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2341 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2342 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2343 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2344 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2345 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2346 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2349 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2350 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2351 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2352 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2353 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2354 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2355 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2358 * Interface localization
2359 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2360 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2361 * New full-featured Preferences window
2364 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2365 --------------------------------
2368 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2369 * support for skins at the interface level
2370 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2371 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2372 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2373 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2374 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2377 * fixed HTTP redirects
2378 * support for opening an entire directory
2379 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2380 * new video4linux access plug-in
2381 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2384 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2385 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2386 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2389 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2390 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2391 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2392 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2393 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2394 * new codec for raw I420 video
2395 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2398 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2399 (although it still misses some important features)
2400 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2403 * new HTTP output support
2404 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2405 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2408 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2411 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2414 * reorderable playlist
2415 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2416 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2417 * support for mono audio output devices
2418 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2419 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2420 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2421 * the messages window remembers more lines
2422 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2423 * http and ogg stream output options
2424 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2427 * new skinnable interface
2428 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2430 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2431 * support for FLAC audio format
2432 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2434 * network tab in the interface
2435 * "apply" handling in preferences
2438 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2439 ---------------------------------
2442 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2443 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2444 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2445 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2447 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2448 * DTS S/PDIF support
2451 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2452 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2453 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2454 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2457 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2458 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2461 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2464 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2467 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2469 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2470 * rc interface is now fully useable
2471 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2474 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2475 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2476 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2477 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2478 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2480 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2481 * support for mouse gestures
2482 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2485 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2486 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2489 * improved ID3 tag detection
2490 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2491 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2492 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2494 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2497 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2498 ---------------------------------
2501 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2502 English was set as the preferred language
2505 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2506 --------------------------------
2509 * new mouse gesture interface
2510 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2514 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2515 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2516 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2519 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2520 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2524 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2527 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2528 without the user consent
2531 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2533 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2534 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2535 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2538 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2539 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2540 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2541 * playlist enhancements
2542 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2543 * new step forward/step backward commands
2544 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2545 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2546 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2549 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2550 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2551 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2554 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2555 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2558 * native video output is working again
2559 * only commandline interface support
2560 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2563 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2564 --------------------------------
2567 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2568 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2569 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2570 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2571 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2572 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2573 and A/52 streams are supported)
2574 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2579 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2580 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2581 * VCD entry points support
2582 * VCD image file support
2585 * support for *.asf format
2586 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2587 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2588 * support for ogg encapsulation
2589 * support for raw DV format
2590 * support for *.wav format
2591 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2594 Stream discovery & playlists:
2595 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2596 * support for .m3u file format
2597 * support for .asx file format
2598 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2601 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2602 (only available with the .avi demux)
2603 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2604 * support for raw PCM data
2605 * support for Cinepak video codec
2606 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2607 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2608 * support for Xvid codec
2609 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2610 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2611 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2613 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2615 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2618 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2621 * new WxWindows interface
2622 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2623 device and the channels configuration
2624 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2625 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2626 format that VLC can play
2627 * new swedish translation
2628 * enhancements of the playlist window
2629 * new messages window to see debug info
2630 * fixed a few crashes
2633 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2634 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2635 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2636 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working