1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
17 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
18 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
21 * fixed lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
24 * portaudio audio output
26 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
27 ---------------------------------
30 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
31 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
32 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
33 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
34 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
35 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
36 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
37 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
38 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
39 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
40 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
41 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
42 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
43 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
44 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
45 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
46 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
47 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
48 --http-crl (optional CRL).
49 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
50 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
51 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
52 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
53 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
54 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
55 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
57 Important changes for packagers:
58 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
59 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
60 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
61 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
62 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
63 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
64 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
65 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
66 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
67 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
70 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
71 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
72 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
73 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
74 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
75 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
76 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
79 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
80 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
81 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
82 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
83 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
84 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
85 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
86 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
87 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
88 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
89 * PulseAudio audio input support
90 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
91 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
92 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
93 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
94 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
95 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
96 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
97 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
100 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
101 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
102 are notably concerned.
103 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
104 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
105 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
106 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
107 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
108 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
109 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
110 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
111 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
112 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
113 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
114 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
115 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
116 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
117 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
120 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
121 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
122 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
123 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
124 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
125 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
126 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
127 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
128 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
129 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
130 * Improved support of tracker files
133 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
134 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
135 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
136 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
137 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
138 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
139 and important cleanups and optimisations
140 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
141 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
142 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
143 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
144 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
145 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
146 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
147 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
148 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
149 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
150 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
151 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
152 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
153 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
154 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
155 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
156 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
157 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
158 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
159 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
160 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
163 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
164 * New video output for iOS platform
165 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
166 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
167 * Various vmem improvements
168 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
169 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
170 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
171 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
172 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
173 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
175 Audio Output and Filters:
176 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
177 * New audio output in memory (amem)
178 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
179 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
180 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
181 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
182 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
183 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
184 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
185 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
188 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
189 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
190 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
191 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
192 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
193 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
194 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
195 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
196 * New anti-flickering filter
197 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
198 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
199 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
200 blackbox and customizable shadow.
201 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
202 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
203 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
206 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
207 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
208 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
209 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
210 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
211 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
212 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
213 * Major rework of VoD support
214 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
215 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
216 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
217 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
218 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
219 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
220 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
221 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
222 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
223 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
226 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
227 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
230 * New capabilities for libVLC:
231 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
232 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
233 list of available audio and video filters
234 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
235 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
236 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
239 * asademux: use libass only
240 * subsass: use libass
241 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
242 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
244 * upnp: use upnp_intel
245 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
246 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
247 * removal of the noise filter
248 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
249 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
250 removed in Growl's next release, too.
251 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
254 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
255 ----------------------------------
258 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
259 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
262 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
263 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
266 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
267 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
268 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
271 * Camtasia decoding fix.
274 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
275 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
278 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
281 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
282 ----------------------------------
285 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
286 including support for OS X Lion
287 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
288 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
291 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
294 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
295 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
296 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
299 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
302 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
303 ----------------------------------
306 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
307 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
310 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
311 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
312 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
313 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
314 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
316 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
317 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
318 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
320 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
321 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
324 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
327 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
330 * Fix quitting on Linux
331 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
335 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
338 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
341 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
342 ---------------------------------
344 Windows and Mac OS X:
345 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
348 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
349 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
352 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
355 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
358 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
360 Miscellaneous fixes in:
361 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
363 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
364 * RTP output and XML export
365 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
369 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
370 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
371 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
372 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
375 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
376 --------------------------------
378 Windows and Mac OS X:
379 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
382 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
385 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
386 * Improve Apple Remote handling
387 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
388 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
389 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
390 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
393 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
394 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
398 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
399 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
400 * New Luganda Translation
403 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
404 --------------------------------
407 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
410 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
411 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
412 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
413 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
416 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
418 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
419 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
420 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
421 * mp4 demuxer improvements
422 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
423 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
424 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
425 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
427 Miscellaneous fixes in:
428 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
429 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
430 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
431 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
432 * Configure and build system improvements
433 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
436 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
437 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
438 * New icelandic translation
441 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
442 --------------------------------
445 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
449 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
450 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
451 and stability reasons
454 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
458 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
461 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
462 ----------------------------------
465 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
468 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
469 ---------------------------------
472 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
473 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
474 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
475 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
478 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
481 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
482 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
483 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
484 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
487 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
488 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
489 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
491 Subtitles and renderer:
492 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
493 * Mark more freetype options as safe
494 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
495 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
496 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
499 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
500 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
501 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
502 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
505 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
506 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
509 * KDE device solid actions
511 * Transcode integer overflow
512 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
513 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
516 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
517 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
518 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
521 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
522 ----------------------------------
525 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
529 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
532 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
535 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
536 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
537 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
538 * Taglib thread-safety fix
541 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
545 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
548 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
551 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
552 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
554 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
558 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
559 * Miscellaneous fixes
562 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
563 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
565 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
566 * New Asturian translation
569 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
570 ----------------------------------
573 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
575 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
578 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
581 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
582 * Various fixes for Windows
585 * New Armenian translation
586 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
587 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
590 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
591 --------------------------------
594 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
596 * Fix folders opening from the interface
599 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
600 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
603 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
604 --------------------------------
607 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
608 * fix for podcasts parsing
609 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
612 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
613 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
616 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
617 * fix m3u playlists exports
620 * fix video autoresize behaviour
623 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
626 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
629 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
632 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
635 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
636 --------------------------------
639 * Avformat fps displaying fix
640 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
643 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
644 of mono streams, especially on Windows
647 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
648 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
649 * fix console output encoding
651 Interface and extensions:
652 * Youtube and other scripts updates
653 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
656 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
657 --------------------------------
660 * New capabilities for libVLC:
661 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
662 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
663 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
664 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
665 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
666 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
667 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
668 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
669 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
670 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
671 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
672 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
673 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
674 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
675 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
679 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
680 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
681 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
682 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
683 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
686 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
689 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
690 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
691 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
695 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
698 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
699 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
700 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
703 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
704 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
705 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
706 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
709 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
710 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
713 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
714 --------------------------------
716 Important changes for users:
717 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
718 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
720 Important changes for packagers:
721 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
722 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
723 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
724 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
725 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
727 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
729 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
730 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
731 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
732 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
733 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
736 * Support for the sftp protocol
737 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
738 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
739 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
740 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
741 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
744 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
745 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
746 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
748 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
749 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
750 * Invmem module improvements
751 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
752 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
753 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
754 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
755 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
756 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
757 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
758 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
759 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
760 * Support for VP8 codec
761 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
764 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
765 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
766 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
767 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
768 * Various EGP improvements
769 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
770 * Metadata and cover art improvements
773 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
774 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
775 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
776 * Podcast images are now displayed
779 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
780 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
781 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
782 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
783 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
784 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
785 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
786 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
787 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
788 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
789 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
792 * New content extensions lua framework
795 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
796 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
797 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
798 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
799 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
800 * NEON assembly audio converter module
801 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
804 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
805 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
806 * Service discovery based on libudev
807 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
810 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
811 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
812 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
813 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
814 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
815 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
816 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
819 * New smem module, streaming to memory
820 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
821 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
824 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
826 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
827 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
830 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
833 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
834 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
835 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
836 by Andy Matuschak et al.
837 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
838 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
839 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
842 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
843 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
846 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
847 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
848 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
852 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
853 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
854 * Improved Solaris port
857 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
858 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
861 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
862 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
863 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
864 * transrate: broken since too long
865 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
866 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
867 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
868 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
869 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
870 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
871 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
872 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
873 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
874 * cddax: use cdda instead.
875 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
876 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
877 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
878 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
881 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
882 --------------------------------
885 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
887 Decoders/Packetizers:
888 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
891 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
892 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
893 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
894 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
895 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
898 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
899 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
902 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
903 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
906 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
907 and Walloon translations updated
908 * Sinhala translation started
911 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
912 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
915 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
916 --------------------------------
919 * SubRip extra styles improvements
920 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
923 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
926 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
927 increase performance and fix x264 issues
930 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
931 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
932 Russian, Slovak translation updates
933 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
936 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
937 --------------------------------
940 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
941 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
944 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
945 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
948 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
949 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
952 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
955 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
956 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
959 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
960 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
963 * New Walloon translation
964 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
967 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
968 --------------------------------
971 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
972 regressions in most popular drivers
973 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
976 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
977 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
978 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
981 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
982 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
985 * Update for appletrailers lua script
986 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
987 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
988 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
989 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
992 * New udev module for linux
995 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
998 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1001 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1002 --------------------------------
1005 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1006 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1007 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1010 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1011 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1014 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1015 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1018 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1021 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1022 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1023 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1024 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1027 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1028 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1029 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1030 - no support for Goom and SDL
1031 - limited text rendering support
1032 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1035 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1036 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1037 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1038 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1039 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1040 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1041 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1042 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1043 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1047 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1050 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1053 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1054 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1055 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1056 Arabic and French translation updates
1059 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1060 --------------------------------
1063 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1064 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1065 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1066 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1067 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1068 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1071 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1072 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1073 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1076 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1077 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1078 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1081 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1084 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1085 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1088 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1089 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1090 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1091 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1092 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1093 * Fix various crashes
1096 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1098 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1102 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1103 ---------------------------------
1107 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1108 See 'Access:' for more info.
1109 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1112 * Instantaneous pausing
1113 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1114 * Finer speed control
1115 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1116 * Timeshift for most medias
1117 * RTSP trickplay support
1118 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1121 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1122 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1123 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1124 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1125 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1126 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1127 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1128 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1129 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1130 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1133 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1134 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1135 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1136 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1137 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1138 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1139 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1142 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1143 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1146 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1147 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1148 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1149 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1150 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1151 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1152 * DVB scanning on linux
1153 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1154 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1155 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1156 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1157 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1158 * MTP device access on Unix
1159 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1160 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1163 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1164 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1165 Windows and Mac OS X.
1168 * Export the playlist in HTML
1169 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1170 * Better metadata handling and reading
1172 Linux/Windows interface:
1173 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1174 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1175 * Recently played items list
1176 * Interface toolbar customizations
1177 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1178 - More menus actions
1179 - Finer speed slider
1180 - Improvements on many dialogs
1181 - New dialog for plugins listing
1182 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1183 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1184 * Better integration in GTK environments
1187 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1188 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1189 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1190 * Additional usability improvements
1193 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1194 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1195 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1196 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1197 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1200 * New Maemo port with:
1201 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1202 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1205 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1208 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1209 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1210 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1211 * Support for latest iSight models
1214 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1215 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1218 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1219 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1220 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1221 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1222 The old image video output has been removed.
1223 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1224 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1227 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1235 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1236 --------------------------------------
1242 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1243 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1244 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1245 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1246 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1247 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1248 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1250 Various fixes to the following modules:
1253 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1254 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1255 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1257 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1262 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1263 ---------------------------------
1266 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1267 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1270 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1271 ---------------------------------
1274 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1277 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1280 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1281 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1282 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1283 main controller window.
1284 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1287 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1292 * Updates of other localizations
1295 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1296 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1297 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1298 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1299 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1302 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1303 ---------------------------------
1306 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1308 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1311 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1312 --------------------------------
1317 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1318 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1321 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1322 --------------------------------
1324 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1325 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1328 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1331 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1332 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1335 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1336 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1339 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1340 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1341 * Various fixed in playlist
1344 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1347 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1350 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1351 ------------------------------------
1353 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1354 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1357 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1358 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1359 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1362 * Stability fix for the video output.
1365 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1366 --------------------------------
1369 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1370 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1371 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1372 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1373 * Fixed update system bugs
1374 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1377 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1378 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1379 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1380 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1381 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1382 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1383 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1384 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1385 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1386 modern Mac OS X versions
1389 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1390 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1392 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1393 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1396 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1397 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1398 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1399 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1400 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1401 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1404 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1405 --------------------------------
1407 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1408 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1409 * Multiple bugfixes.
1412 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1413 --------------------------------
1415 * Multiple bug fixes.
1418 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1419 ---------------------------------
1423 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1424 recent to work correctly
1425 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1426 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1427 edit the ".hosts" file.
1428 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1429 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1430 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1431 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1432 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1433 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1434 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1435 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1436 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1437 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1438 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1439 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1440 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1441 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1442 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1443 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1444 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1445 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1446 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1447 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1448 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1449 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1450 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1451 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1452 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1453 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1454 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1455 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1456 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1457 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1458 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1459 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1460 and postproc modules.
1461 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1462 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1463 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1464 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1466 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1467 filter. For example:
1468 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1469 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1471 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1472 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1478 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1480 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1481 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1484 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1485 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1487 * Shoutcast TV listings
1488 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1490 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1491 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1493 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1496 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1497 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1498 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1499 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1500 * JACK audio input support
1501 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1502 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1503 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1504 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1505 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1506 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1507 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1508 (available as a separate download).
1509 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1510 * RTMP input support
1511 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1512 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1513 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1515 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1516 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1519 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1520 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1521 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1522 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1524 * APEv1/2 tags support
1525 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1526 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1528 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1529 * TiVo Series 2 support
1530 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1535 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1536 * Flash Screen Video support
1537 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1538 * DosBox Capture support
1539 * Karl Morton's Video support
1540 * limited atrac3 support
1542 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1543 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1544 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1545 * H.264 PAFF support
1546 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1547 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1548 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1549 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1550 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1553 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1554 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1555 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1556 * AQTitle subtitles support
1557 * MKV USF subtitles support
1558 * HTML-based subtitles support
1559 * MPSub subtitles support
1560 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1561 * MPL2 subtitles support
1562 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1563 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1564 * Realtext subtitle support
1565 * DKS subtitle support
1566 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1567 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1570 * Flash Screen Video support
1571 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1573 Video outputs and filters:
1574 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1575 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1576 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1577 * New puzzle video output filter
1578 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1579 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1581 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1582 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1583 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1584 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1585 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1586 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1587 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1588 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1589 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1590 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1591 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1592 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1593 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1594 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1596 Audio outputs and filters:
1597 * Replay gain support
1598 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1599 new scaletempo audio filter)
1600 * New spatializer audio filter
1601 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1604 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1605 * New RTP payload formats:
1606 * Speex voice audio codec
1607 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1608 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1609 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1610 * DCCP transport for RTP
1611 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1616 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1617 end-user suitable way.
1618 * Improved user interaction
1619 * Improved mouse gestures
1620 * Vastly improved Update checker
1621 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1623 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1624 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1626 * Improved video output features
1627 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1628 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1629 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1630 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1631 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1633 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1634 if libncursesw is available.
1635 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1636 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1637 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1639 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1640 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1641 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1642 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1643 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1644 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1645 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1646 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1649 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1650 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1651 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1654 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1655 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1656 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1657 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1658 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1659 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1662 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1663 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1673 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1674 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1675 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1678 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1679 ----------------------------------
1682 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1685 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1686 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1687 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1688 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1689 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1690 * Updated Polish translation
1693 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1694 ----------------------------------
1697 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1698 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1699 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1702 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1703 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1704 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1705 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1706 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1707 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1708 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1709 to an unexpected application termination
1710 * New Serbian translation
1711 * Updated Romanian translation
1714 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1715 ----------------------------------
1718 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1719 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1720 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1721 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1722 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1723 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1724 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1725 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1728 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1729 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1730 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1731 * Fixed AAC resampling
1732 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1733 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1736 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1737 ----------------------------------
1740 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1741 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1742 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1743 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1744 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1747 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1748 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1749 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1750 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1751 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1754 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1755 ----------------------------------
1758 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1759 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1762 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1763 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1764 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1765 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1767 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1771 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1774 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1777 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1780 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1783 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1784 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1785 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1786 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1787 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1789 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1790 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1791 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1792 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1795 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1798 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1799 ----------------------------------
1802 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1803 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1804 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1806 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1807 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1809 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1810 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1813 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1815 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1816 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1817 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1818 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1819 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1820 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1821 two different movies
1822 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1823 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1824 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1827 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1830 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1831 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1832 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1833 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1836 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1837 ----------------------------------
1839 Various bugfixes, notably:
1840 * Windows Vista compatibility
1841 * Cropping in Direct3D
1842 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1843 * RSS filter string overflow
1845 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1847 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1848 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1851 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1852 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1855 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1858 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1861 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1864 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1865 ----------------------------------
1867 Various bugfixes, notably:
1868 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1869 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1870 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1871 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1872 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1873 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1876 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1877 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1880 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1882 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1883 * Diverse usability improvements
1884 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1885 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1886 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1889 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1890 ---------------------------------
1892 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1893 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1896 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1899 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1900 --------------------------------
1903 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1906 * Support for RTSP authentication
1907 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1908 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1909 * ATSC support for DVB input
1910 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1911 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1912 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1915 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1916 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1917 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1918 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1919 * Matroska WavPack support
1920 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1921 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1922 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1925 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1926 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1927 * Improved libcaca support
1931 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1932 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1934 * Systray support in skins
1936 * Support for Apple Remote control
1937 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1938 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1939 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1940 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1942 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1945 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1946 Windows 9x/ME users:
1947 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1948 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1949 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1950 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1951 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1953 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1954 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1963 * Updates to the libvlc API
1964 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1967 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1968 --------------------------------
1971 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1972 * Support for downloading updates
1976 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1977 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1978 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1979 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1981 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1982 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1983 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1986 * Cook (Real audio) support
1988 Playlist / Services discovery:
1989 * XSPF playlist support
1991 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1994 * New JACK audio output
1997 * New video filters:
1998 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1999 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2000 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2001 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2002 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2003 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2006 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2009 * System to inform the user and request information
2010 - HTTP authentication
2014 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2015 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2016 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2019 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2020 - Improved playlist handling
2021 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2023 - Embedded Video output
2024 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2025 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2026 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2027 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2028 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2030 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2031 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2034 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2037 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2038 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2039 * Growl "Now playing" support
2042 * Ability to log to syslog
2043 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2046 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2048 * A bit more automatic testing
2051 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2052 ---------------------------------
2055 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2056 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2059 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2060 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2063 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2066 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2067 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2073 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2076 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2077 --------------------------------
2080 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2084 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2085 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2086 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2089 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2090 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2091 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2092 * GnomeVFS input module
2093 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2094 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2097 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2098 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2099 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2102 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2103 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2109 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2110 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2113 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2114 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2115 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2118 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2120 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2121 - New extended controls panel
2122 - New bookmarks window
2123 - Fixed playlist sorting
2124 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2126 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2127 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2128 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2129 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2133 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2134 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2136 - Include macro to include other files
2140 * Should now work outside IE as well
2143 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2146 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2147 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2150 The following languages were added:
2154 * Simplified Chinese
2155 The following languages were re-added:
2159 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * Rewrite of the playlist
2165 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2166 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2167 * Preferences improvements:
2168 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2169 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2171 * Core image manipulation support
2172 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2173 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2174 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2175 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2176 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2177 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2178 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2179 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2180 * Access filter architecture
2181 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2182 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2186 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2187 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2188 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2189 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2190 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2191 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2192 * Massive Matroska improvements
2193 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2195 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2196 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2197 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2198 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2199 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2201 Decoders / Encoders:
2202 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2203 * PNG decoder/encoder
2204 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2205 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2208 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2211 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2212 * Brand new SAP module
2213 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2214 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2215 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2216 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2217 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2218 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2222 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2225 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2226 * Image file video output (png)
2227 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2228 * Improvements to wall video filter
2229 * Support for font color and opacity
2235 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2236 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2237 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2241 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2242 - Improved preferences
2243 - Improvements to the wizard
2244 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2246 - Redesigned playlist
2247 - Improved preferences
2249 - Support for multiple actions
2252 - Support for the new playlist system
2254 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2257 * Screensaver disabling fix
2258 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2259 * Support for no-decoration windows
2262 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2263 * The OpenGL video output is back
2264 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2265 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2266 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2267 is not yet available in the new module
2268 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2271 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2280 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2283 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2286 The following languages were added:
2292 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2293 --------------------------------
2296 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2297 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2300 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2301 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2302 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2305 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2308 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2311 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2314 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2315 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2316 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2320 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2322 * Support of playlist group announcement
2325 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2326 --------------------------------
2329 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2330 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2331 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2332 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2333 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2334 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2337 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2338 (Stream your desktop)
2339 * Improved DVD support:
2340 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2341 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2342 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2343 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2344 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2345 (selection of titles/chapters).
2348 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2349 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2350 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2351 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2352 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2353 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2354 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2355 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2356 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2357 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2360 * G.726 audio support
2361 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2362 * MPEG-4 text support
2363 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2364 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2365 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2369 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2370 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2371 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2372 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2373 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2374 * DVB subtitles encoder
2375 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2376 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2378 * Text track muxing for mp4
2379 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2380 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2381 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2382 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2383 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2384 * Improved ASF muxer
2386 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2387 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2388 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2391 * New audio equalizer filter
2392 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2393 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2394 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2395 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2398 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2399 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2400 with support for effects.
2401 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2402 - New filters can be streamed.
2403 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2404 - Centralized scaling and blending
2406 - "time", to display current time
2407 - "marq", to display a marquee
2410 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2411 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2412 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2413 * A few skins2 improvements
2414 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2415 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2416 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2417 * Improved CORBA control module
2420 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2421 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2422 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2425 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2426 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2427 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2430 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2431 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2432 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2433 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2434 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2437 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2440 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2441 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2444 * Server/client network synchronization module
2445 * VBrick streams fully supported
2446 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2450 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2451 --------------------------------
2454 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2455 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2456 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2457 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2460 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2461 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2462 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2463 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2464 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2465 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2466 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2469 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2470 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2471 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2472 * Improved directory access module.
2473 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2474 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2475 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2476 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2477 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2480 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2481 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2482 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2485 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2486 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2487 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2490 * Improved session announcement system.
2491 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2492 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2493 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2494 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2495 * Improved transrater.
2496 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2497 * New configuration system.
2498 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2501 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2502 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2503 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2504 * Supports scheduling.
2505 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2506 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2509 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2510 - Ability to embed video output.
2511 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2512 - Lots of improvements.
2513 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2514 - New design and set of icons.
2515 - Ability to embed video output.
2516 - Support for hotkeys.
2517 - Support for bookmarks.
2519 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2520 - Better hotkeys handling.
2523 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2524 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2525 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2526 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2529 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2530 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2531 * Improved Windows installer.
2537 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2538 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2541 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2542 ---------------------------------
2545 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2546 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2549 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2550 --------------------------------
2553 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2554 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2557 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2558 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2559 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2560 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2563 * Internal improvments
2564 * Improved import/export
2567 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2569 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2570 small and strange formats.
2572 * New MOD audio demux.
2573 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2574 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2575 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2576 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2579 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2580 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2581 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2587 * New opengl video output plugin.
2590 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2591 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2594 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2595 --------------------------------
2598 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2599 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2600 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2601 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2602 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2603 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2604 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2605 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2608 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2613 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2614 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2615 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2616 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2617 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2618 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2619 * Better Icecast support.
2620 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2621 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2624 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2625 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2626 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2627 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2628 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2629 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2630 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2633 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2634 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2635 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2636 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2637 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2638 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2639 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2640 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2641 * Preliminary RTP support.
2642 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2647 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2648 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2650 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2651 - Improvements and help in preferences
2652 - New streaming wizard
2653 - Revised Disc Open menu
2655 - Improvements of the standard pages
2656 - Support for new commands
2657 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2660 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2661 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2664 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2665 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2666 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2667 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2668 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2669 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2670 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2671 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2672 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2675 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2677 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2678 * Support for Panther.
2679 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2680 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2683 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2684 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2685 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2686 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2687 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2688 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2689 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2690 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2693 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2694 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2695 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2698 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2701 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2702 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2703 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2704 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2707 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2708 --------------------------------
2711 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2714 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2715 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2718 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2719 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2722 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2725 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2726 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2729 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2732 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2735 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2736 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2740 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2741 --------------------------------
2744 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2745 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2749 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2750 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2751 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2753 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2754 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2757 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2760 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2763 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2764 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2768 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2769 --------------------------------
2772 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2773 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2777 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2778 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2779 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2780 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2781 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2784 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2785 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2786 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2789 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2790 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2791 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2794 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2795 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2796 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2797 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2798 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2801 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2802 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2803 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2806 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2809 * Improved build system.
2810 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2811 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2812 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2813 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2816 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2817 --------------------------------
2820 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2823 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2824 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2825 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2826 * Video 4 Linux support
2827 * CD Digital Audio support
2828 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2831 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2832 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2833 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2834 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2837 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2838 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2839 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2840 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2841 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2842 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2843 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2846 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2847 * New HTTP remote control interface
2850 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2851 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2852 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2853 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2854 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2857 * New reset option for the preferences
2858 * You can set your language in the prefences
2859 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2860 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2861 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2862 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2865 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2866 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2867 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2870 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2871 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2872 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2873 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2874 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2875 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2876 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2877 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2878 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2879 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2882 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2883 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2884 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2885 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2886 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2887 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2888 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2891 * Interface localization
2892 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2893 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2894 * New full-featured Preferences window
2897 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2898 --------------------------------
2901 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2902 * support for skins at the interface level
2903 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2904 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2905 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2906 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2907 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2910 * fixed HTTP redirects
2911 * support for opening an entire directory
2912 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2913 * new video4linux access plug-in
2914 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2917 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2918 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2919 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2922 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2923 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2924 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2925 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2926 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2927 * new codec for raw I420 video
2928 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2931 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2932 (although it still misses some important features)
2933 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2936 * new HTTP output support
2937 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2938 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2941 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2944 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2947 * reorderable playlist
2948 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2949 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2950 * support for mono audio output devices
2951 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2952 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2953 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2954 * the messages window remembers more lines
2955 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2956 * http and ogg stream output options
2957 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2960 * new skinnable interface
2961 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2963 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2964 * support for FLAC audio format
2965 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2967 * network tab in the interface
2968 * "apply" handling in preferences
2971 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2972 ---------------------------------
2975 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2976 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2977 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2978 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2980 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2981 * DTS S/PDIF support
2984 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2985 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2986 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2987 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2990 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2991 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2994 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2997 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3000 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3002 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3003 * rc interface is now fully useable
3004 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3007 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3008 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3009 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3010 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3011 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3013 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3014 * support for mouse gestures
3015 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3018 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3019 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3022 * improved ID3 tag detection
3023 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3024 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3025 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3027 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3030 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3031 ---------------------------------
3034 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3035 English was set as the preferred language
3038 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3039 --------------------------------
3042 * new mouse gesture interface
3043 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3047 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3048 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3049 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3052 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3053 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3057 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3060 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3061 without the user consent
3064 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3066 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3067 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3068 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3071 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3072 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3073 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3074 * playlist enhancements
3075 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3076 * new step forward/step backward commands
3077 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3078 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3079 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3082 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3083 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3084 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3087 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3088 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3091 * native video output is working again
3092 * only commandline interface support
3093 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3096 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3097 --------------------------------
3100 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3101 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3102 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3103 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3104 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3105 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3106 and A/52 streams are supported)
3107 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3112 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3113 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3114 * VCD entry points support
3115 * VCD image file support
3118 * support for *.asf format
3119 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3120 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3121 * support for ogg encapsulation
3122 * support for raw DV format
3123 * support for *.wav format
3124 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3127 Stream discovery & playlists:
3128 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3129 * support for .m3u file format
3130 * support for .asx file format
3131 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3134 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3135 (only available with the .avi demux)
3136 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3137 * support for raw PCM data
3138 * support for Cinepak video codec
3139 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3140 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3141 * support for Xvid codec
3142 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3143 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3144 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3146 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3148 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3151 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3154 * new WxWindows interface
3155 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3156 device and the channels configuration
3157 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3158 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3159 format that VLC can play
3160 * new swedish translation
3161 * enhancements of the playlist window
3162 * new messages window to see debug info
3163 * fixed a few crashes
3166 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3167 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3168 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3169 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working